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DrGeoJeff commented on the blog post Rick Perry Calls Social Security and Medicare “Ponzi Schemes”
Why is it no one is talking about the Republican’s theft of SS to fund two wars that have been funded off the books? If memory serves me correctly, Clinton raised the payroll tax specifically to make SS solvent for decades but it was siphoned off in to he general fund to cover the deficits by Bush 43. Didn’t hear anyone complaining then, why?
Even the Clinton’s Comptroller General at the time, has been a vocal critic of siphoning off the SS trust to cover the deficits. This is the greatest crime of our generation.
44% of Congress millionaires? I believe it to be higher (or most are cheats anyway.
Anyway, I tip my hat to you for bring up a salient point and if we were in a bar, I’d buy ya a drink.
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DrGeoJeff commented on the diary post Rape Victim Arrested by TSA for Refusing Groping by Michael Whitney.
What about the 4th Amendment which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures? In Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that a search occurs only when 1) a person expects privacy in the thing searched and 2) society believes that expectation is reasonable. (Wikipedia) I would rather like to think [...]
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