{"id":61702,"date":"2017-01-11T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61702"},"modified":"2017-01-11T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:31:00","slug":"the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61702","title":{"rendered":"The Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

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My boss is a liberal.\u00a0 “Trump tweeted that he’s breaking his promise, Mexico won’t pay for the wall, we will.”<\/span><\/p>\n

My response: you’re being distracted from important things by irrelevancies.\u00a0 Social Security runs out of money in three years. Then what?<\/span><\/p>\n

His idea: make the federal government repay the money they stole from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seriously?\u00a0 The reason the federal budget is only short $500 billion each year is that we’re borrowing money from the Social Security fund to cover it.\u00a0 Where will we get the money to close that gap PLUS repay the IOUs to Social Security?<\/span><\/p>\n

Simple: the government will just have to come up with the money. And if they don’t have it, then we can’t build the wall. And besides, it’s only temporary, until enough undocumented immigrants arrive to pay into the system again, then it’ll all work out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes.\u00a0 The liberal plan is to bail out Social Security with [illegal immigants], which is why we must not build the wall, so they can get in, to save us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe Doakes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Which is, of course, also why we need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour; if people make more, they pay more social security taxes. \u00a0Hence solvency…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My boss is a liberal.\u00a0 “Trump tweeted that he’s breaking his promise, Mexico won’t pay for the wall, we will.” My response: you’re being distracted from important things by irrelevancies.\u00a0 Social Security runs out of money in three years. Then what? His idea: make the federal government repay the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61703,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61702\/revisions\/61703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}