Petraeus had his life ruined because of an adulterous affair. Hillary had no adulterous affair. She was the one who got hurt not the other way around
No he didnt. He passed classified intelligence to his mistress, who wasn't authorized to read it. That's why they ended his career. Not over the affair. You fucking dummy. Hillary exposed about 100 TIMES more info then Patreus ever did. That's all you got? Hillary is the sweet innocent victim now? lol
She clearly is then victim in all adulterous affair matters. Yes indeed. You got that right. Glad we agree.
Well guess what, it does not matter at all what you agree or disagree with. In any event Trump will be absolute entertainment. Either he goes down like nobody before him or he will become president with a pending law suit of being accused as child rapist. Deliberations start in December 2016... Nice. Can't waste any more time on you. Over and out. Get that anger under control else it will undo you.
Yup. This will all happen regardless of what two random nobodies on the internet say to one another. I think we're coming down to a violent revolution. The Corporations have gone a bridge too far, bucking off the popular will. Its gonna end badly.
It is a myth that social security is "broken". Don't by into this nonsense please. Healthcare is another story. You can read the Trustees reports on the Web. They are all available to the public.
Well then maybe we have to precisely define what we mean with SS. For me that includes pension plans, including those funded by employers and most of those are utterly underfunded. How they want to ever meet future payouts is a mystery to me. And what about social welfare which in my definition also falls under SS. You honestly believe footstamps are the solution? You have a subculture developing in most inner cities today,less safe, worse health coverage, worse retirement coverage, than in many third world countries. Not sure how the current way, welfare is distributed and paid out is gonna change anything. Unemployment benefits? I miss clear incentives to seek work ASAP and tying the effort or lack thereof to the payout of unemployment benefits. It works very well in Japan. Benefits are only paid out when an unemployed shows up weekly at the unemployment office and proves that he is applying for jobs. Child care benefits? Working? That i don't know and would be curious how it is structured in the US.
What baffles me Scat is you don't seem to have a clue despite all the correct information being widely available to you via various government websites. Sadly, you are not the only one.
There are two Trusts. One is the pensions trust which is still in pretty good shape. Currently there is about three trillion in it, but we need an adjustment in the contribution rate to adjust for demographic changes. The Trustees called for a one cent on the dollar adjustment for employers and employees several years ago, but congress has been so dysfunctional that they have failed to act. By now it is probably closer to two cents. The disability trust is a separate trust and it is in some trouble and that program needs significant reform. My impression re corporate pension plans is essentially what yours is, namely that some of them are considerably underfunded, as are many of the State pension plans. Most States have already taken action toward putting their public employees pension funds back on a sound basis but it will take many years to bring their unfunded liabilities down. My impression is that many of these plans made assumptions about returns that are unrealistically high and will have to be adjusted.. Wall Street would obviously love to get its hands on trillions of social security dollars. So for years they've been spreading rumors that it is a Ponzi scheme and have done anything else they could to try and wreck the system. They have had some considerable success affecting public opinion. The truth is, however, that despite these unrelenting attacks the system remains quite sound. And clearly the reason that S.S. has been able to fend off these relentless attacks is the great popularity of Social Security. It is the single most popular government program! Politicians play both sides. They do what they can to undermine the system to placate capital and their wealthy donors, but no politician is ever going to be elected on a platform of privatizing Social Security, and they know that. Although surprisingly, some of our representatives and Senators don't seem to know how the System is designed and why it works as it does. That's always baffled me, because you would think that if anyone understood Social Security, it would be Federal politicians. The fundamental idea behind the U.S. social security system, the pension part, is that those who leave the system before their actuarial death age leave their excess contributions in the Trust. These excess contributions are used to supplement the pensions of those who live beyond their actuarial death age; thus there is shared risk. The great advantage of shared risk is that for a given payout upon retirement one has to contribute significantly less during one's working years. This is the only way that a pension program can work for low paid workers who have virtually no disposable income. Labor simply can not afford to contribute per month what a private, individual retirement plan would require. Individual pension plans, such as 401K and 403B, lack risk sharing, therefore much more per month must be contributed.* The trade off is this: If you die before your private, individual plan funds are exhausted, the residue remains in your estate. With Social Security, on the other hand, if you die before your actuarial death age, or for any other reason leave the system, your contributions remain in the system, you can not pass unused contribution to your heirs. You trade this potential loss of a residual for having to contribute much less for a given monthly payout. It's pretty damn good trade off if you ask me. Social Security is a shared risk, defined benefit plan. In my opinion that is vastly superior, as a pension plan, to any individual, risky, private, defined contribution plan you might contrive. Of course , the capital class has the best of both worlds. Shared risk S.S. as a back-up or supplement, and a individual private, State, or corporate funded plan on top of Social Security. ______________________ * I should also note that the S.S. payout formula has been adjusted to somewhat favor those at the bottom end at the expense of those at the top end. The ROI for those at the top, while still positive on average, is not very good, while those at the bottom get a quite generous ROI, and too, those at the bottom will receive their pensions tax free, while the rest of us will pay income tax on at least a part of our S.S. pension. These features are OK with me. I'm uncomfortable with anyone having to eat cat food.