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* '''2011-04-13''' [http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/13/millionaires_demand_higher_taxes/index.html "Patriotic Millionaires": Raise our taxes, please!] | * '''2011-04-13''' [http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/13/millionaires_demand_higher_taxes/index.html "Patriotic Millionaires": Raise our taxes, please!] | ||
* '''2011-04-14''' [http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/01/14/is-china-really-funding-the-us-debt/ Is China Really Funding the US Debt?] | |||
* [http://www.ssa.gov/history/InternetMyths.html SSA Internet Myths] - related to (but does not include) this text: | |||
*: There is no Social Security crisis. And the extent of the federal budget crisis as a whole is being wildly overblown to scare us toward drastic measures rather than rational solutions. | |||
*: The common source for everyone writing and talking about Social Security is the annual Social Security Trustees Report. This shows that the program can pay all promised benefits for the next 27 years, without any changes at all. If nothing ...is done over the next 27 years, only about 75 percent of scheduled benefits would be payable in 2037; but that would still be more than what retirees receive today, after adjusting for inflation. | |||
*: THE LIE: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is "going broke," people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, I'll never get mine, etc. | |||
*: REALITY: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 27 more years without any changes at all and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to. | |||
*: THE OTHER LIE: The trust fund is a fraud. | |||
*: REALITY:the Treasury obligations held by the Trust Fund are as real as the U.S. government bonds held by any private mutual or pension fund, or the ten-dollar bill in your wallet. The part of the constitution that requires Social Security to be paid back is in article six ,and the fourteenth amendment -the government is to be good for its debts-. Of course if you are going to take something away from people, the first step is to convince them that it wasn't really there in the first place. (you didn't really think the republicans wanting to get rid of the fourteenth amendment had anything to do with "anchor babies", did you ?) | |||
*: See also: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/commentary/article_e588c88d-57af-5652-afe7-ad81d8015482.html | |||
==2011-04-13== | ==2011-04-13== | ||
* http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html | * http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html | ||