Imaginos1892 wrote:Annachie wrote:You rant that the SS piggybank is empty in the same paragraph that you reference 3 Trillion dollars that are in it.
Uh, that's the 2.9 trillion dollars that are NOT in it. All that money was squandered long ago, spent on things that had nothing to do with Social Security. Nothing remains but a giant debt that we, the taxpayers, are expected to make good.
Let's just summarize the GOP position on social security, in chronological historical order.
1. OMG SOCIALISM! DON'T DO IT!
2. Oh you did it, hey look at all this money! Hmmmm... let's use it to finance tax cuts for our rich campaign donors and slash top marginal tax rates and other taxes on the rich and corporations to the bone, gutting the government's revenue stream! Yay! We're heroes! Tax cuts!
3. OMG, THE SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY IS GETTING USED UP! THIS IS A SOCIALIST SCAM WE TOLD YOU SO!
4. WHAT???? UNDO OUR TAX CUTS to fix the system we deliberately sabotaged and stole from???? There go Democrats trying to steal money out of our wallets!!!