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21 trillion in debt? No more having our trade partners laugh at us behind our backs

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  • MLD Woody MLD WoodyM Dedicated Conversation Starter Very Popular First Post Collaborator Posting Machine Reacting Well One Month Later One Year In Week One Done
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    MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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    Don't worry. My generation will be the ones that start to feel it

    Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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    • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

      Don't worry. My generation will be the ones that start to feel it

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      @mld-woody said:

      Don't worry. My generation will be the ones that start to feel it

      Hopefully. But seriously the shitt could hit the fan sooner than we think. I'd like to think I have another 15 or 20 years but...

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        C Clevfan4life wrote on last edited by
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        these trade imbalances were deliberate. it was thevtrade off for the world accepting the u.s as the global currency printer. so few of u understand what it means to print the worlds reserve currency. u cobstantly bibble and babble about tbings u deliberately k ow as little as possible about. 

        i agree with trump btw andvthatbthe u.s needs to make sht again instead of just printing the worlds reserve while funneling everyone into soul crushing service type careers. we've hollowed out the soul of our country cause we sold out to money. but keep worshipping tbe wealthy they totally have our best interests in mind

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          @mld-woody said:

          Don't worry. My generation will be the ones that start to feel it

          Hopefully. But seriously the shitt could hit the fan sooner than we think. I'd like to think I have another 15 or 20 years but...

          WSS

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          T TexasAg1969 wrote on last edited by
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          @westside-steve said:

          Hopefully. But seriously the shitt could hit the fan sooner than we think. I'd like to think I have another 15 or 20 years but...

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          Are those flowers growing between your toes Steve????

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            @westside-steve said:

            Hopefully. But seriously the shitt could hit the fan sooner than we think. I'd like to think I have another 15 or 20 years but...

            WSS

            Are those flowers growing between your toes Steve????

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            @texasag1969 said:

            Are those flowers growing between your toes Steve????

            Not sure I caught that one. Expound.

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              @texasag1969 said:

              Are those flowers growing between your toes Steve????

              Not sure I caught that one. Expound.

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              C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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              @westside-steve said:

              Not sure I caught that one. Expound.

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              I think that's an old fart reference to the 60's hippie era, and Barry McGuire

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                Canton DawgC Canton Dawg wrote on last edited by
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                Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day 

                Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime 

                Promise a man somebody else's fish for a lifetime, you create a Democrat.

                Two things that will define you: Your determination when you have nothing. Your attitude when you have everything. - Mike McCartney
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                • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

                  Don't worry. My generation will be the ones that start to feel it

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                  DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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                  @mld-woody said:

                  Don't worry. My generation will be the ones that start to feel it

                  Image result for baby crying gif

                  "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
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                    MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                    Careful now. I think you're closer to being a baby than I am at this point

                    Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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                    • Canton DawgC Canton Dawg

                      Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day 

                      Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime 

                      Promise a man somebody else's fish for a lifetime, you create a Democrat.

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                      tiamat63T tiamat63 wrote on last edited by
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                      @canton-dawg said:

                      Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day 

                      Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime 

                      Promise a man somebody else's fish for a lifetime, you create a Democrat.

                      I prefer this one.

                      give-a-man-a-fish-and-feed-him-for-a-293

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                        C calfoxwc wrote on last edited by
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                        for ...gay liberal yuppies it is.

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                          @texasag1969 said:

                          Are those flowers growing between your toes Steve????

                          Not sure I caught that one. Expound.

                          WSS

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                          @westside-steve said:

                          Not sure I caught that one. Expound.

                          WSS

                          As in pushing up daisies. LOL. We'll both be lucky to get 15 to 20 more years.??

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                          • Canton DawgC Canton Dawg

                            Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day 

                            Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime 

                            Promise a man somebody else's fish for a lifetime, you create a Democrat.

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                            jbluhm86J jbluhm86 wrote on last edited by jbluhm86
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                            @canton-dawg said:

                            Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day 

                            Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime 

                            Promise a man somebody else's fish for a lifetime, you create a Democrat.

                            Well, since current and imminent retirees will be collecting $3 for every $1 they actually put in the social security system, courtesy of younger generations such as mine, that means every baby boomer will be eating tilapia and voting Democat, then.

                            "That which can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence”. - Christopher Hitchens "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you". - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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                              @canton-dawg said:

                              Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day 

                              Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime 

                              Promise a man somebody else's fish for a lifetime, you create a Democrat.

                              Well, since current and imminent retirees will be collecting $3 for every $1 they actually put in the social security system, courtesy of younger generations such as mine, that means every baby boomer will be eating tilapia and voting Democat, then.

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                              @jbluhm86 said:

                              Well, since current and imminent retirees will be collecting $3 for every $1 they actually put in the social security system, courtesy of younger generations such as mine, that means every baby boomer will be eating tilapia and voting Democat, then.

                              So then everybody will be calling you young people Nazis and racists and all that crap? And it will be you guys the Liberals balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and the elderly? Good. And the Democrats will be pushing for a 70 year old retirement age.

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                                Ps how old are you JB?

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                                  @jbluhm86 said:

                                  Well, since current and imminent retirees will be collecting $3 for every $1 they actually put in the social security system, courtesy of younger generations such as mine, that means every baby boomer will be eating tilapia and voting Democat, then.

                                  So then everybody will be calling you young people Nazis and racists and all that crap? And it will be you guys the Liberals balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and the elderly? Good. And the Democrats will be pushing for a 70 year old retirement age.

                                  WSS

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                                  jbluhm86J jbluhm86 wrote on last edited by
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                                  @westside-steve said:

                                  So then everybody will be calling you young people Nazis and racists and all that crap? And it will be you guys the Liberals balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and the elderly? Good. And the Democrats will be pushing for a 70 year old retirement age.

                                  WSS

                                  All things being equal, both political parties have screwed the pooch on fixing and/or phasing out Social Security, simply because in order to do so, they'd need to either reduce the benefits for boomers already collecting or soon to collect Social Security, and/or increase the contribution rate from the younger generations paying into it while knowing full well that those people would never see their full benefits by the time they reach retirement age. This problem has been known since at least the 80s, yet no one dares to fix it, Republican or Democrat, because it's politically unpalatable. That's why my current retirement plans rely very little on projected Social Security benefits, because there's no chance in hell i'll be collecting near what Uncle Sam takes out of my paycheck every other week in Social Security taxes.

                                  @westside-steve said:

                                  Ps how old are you JB?

                                  WSS

                                  I turn 32 next month.

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                                    @canton-dawg said:

                                    Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day 

                                    Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime 

                                    Promise a man somebody else's fish for a lifetime, you create a Democrat.

                                    Well, since current and imminent retirees will be collecting $3 for every $1 they actually put in the social security system, courtesy of younger generations such as mine, that means every baby boomer will be eating tilapia and voting Democat, then.

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                                    @jbluhm86 said:

                                    Well, since current and imminent retirees will be collecting $3 for every $1 they actually put in the social security system, courtesy of younger generations such as mine, that means every baby boomer will be eating tilapia and voting Democat, then.

                                    Steve and I have decided we're living about 5-10 years beyond the stat prediction so we can get a $4 for $1 deal. Since the majority of the itty bitty SS check I get came from Texas summer jobs tearing down old buildings (starting with those hot roofs), active duty Army and then several years in the real "organized militia" (Nat. Gd.), I think I earned it.

                                    BTW it's far, far less that the IRA money I paid out of my own pay check that has more than multiplied by Xs 10 during a similar period. I would rather have been doing that than investing it in those shitty checks from SS that are worth far less per $ now than what they were when I put them in. But that's ok. The younger generation will be paying for Trump's rich man tax cut after the inflation it causes even worse than my generation has.

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                                      @westside-steve said:

                                      So then everybody will be calling you young people Nazis and racists and all that crap? And it will be you guys the Liberals balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and the elderly? Good. And the Democrats will be pushing for a 70 year old retirement age.

                                      WSS

                                      All things being equal, both political parties have screwed the pooch on fixing and/or phasing out Social Security, simply because in order to do so, they'd need to either reduce the benefits for boomers already collecting or soon to collect Social Security, and/or increase the contribution rate from the younger generations paying into it while knowing full well that those people would never see their full benefits by the time they reach retirement age. This problem has been known since at least the 80s, yet no one dares to fix it, Republican or Democrat, because it's politically unpalatable. That's why my current retirement plans rely very little on projected Social Security benefits, because there's no chance in hell i'll be collecting near what Uncle Sam takes out of my paycheck every other week in Social Security taxes.

                                      @westside-steve said:

                                      Ps how old are you JB?

                                      WSS

                                      I turn 32 next month.

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                                      W Westside Steve wrote on last edited by
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                                      @jbluhm86 said:

                                      All things being equal, both political parties have screwed the pooch on fixing and/or phasing out Social Security, simply because in order to do so, they'd need to either reduce the benefits for boomers already collecting or soon to collect Social Security, and/or increase the contribution rate from the younger generations paying into it while knowing full well that those people would never see their full benefits by the time they reach retirement age. This problem has been known since at least the 80s, yet no one dares to fix it, Republican or Democrat, because it's politically unpalatable. That's why my current retirement plans rely very little on projected Social Security benefits, because there's no chance in hell i'll be collecting near what Uncle Sam takes out of my paycheck every other week in Social Security taxes.

                                      I turn 32 next month.

                                      All that's true. Good luck selling that to an increasingly "me" population.

                                      Anyway Financial people of been begging people to invest rather than waste generation after generation. People just won't do it. It's easier to put off responsibility until it's too late.

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                                        By the way the whole Social Security Ponzi scheme is one of the things that's going to bite Us in the a$$. It's always puzzled me that people look to Franklin Delano Roosevelt as some kind of a hero.

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                                          DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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                                          I live quite comfortably on my Military Retirement/Social Security/Thrift Savings Plan/401K's.  Keep paying up kiddies?

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