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On 3/3/2014 10:33 AM, HanK wrote:
On 3/3/2014 9:27 AM, HanK wrote:
On 3/3/2014 9:14 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/3/2014 10:00 AM, HanK wrote:
On 3/2/2014 11:09 PM,
wrote:
On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 16:35:48 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/2/14, 4:30 PM, Tim wrote:
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 3:08:10 PM UTC-6, F.O.A.D. wrote:
Ronald Reagan considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist but supported

Osama bin Laden.



That was way before bin Laden WAS a terrorist.


Heheheheh. Ronnie Raygun. Friend of terrorists, enemy of freedom
fighters.

One man's terrorist is always someone else's freedom fighter. Take
Menachem Begin for example.

Another one might be Ho Chi Minh, FDR's freedom fighter, LBJ's
terrorist.
We even liked Castro for a while.


When FDR signed Medicare into law, it was supposed to be a loan which
was supposed to be paid back. Whatever became of that law? Betcha the
liberal democrats worked it over real good in exchange for votes.


Ummmm... FDR never signed Medicare or any type of health care system
into law. He signed the Social Security Act into law but it had no
health care provisions associated with it. He tried to generate
interest in a universal health care system as did subsequent
administrations but Congress never passed any of them until 1965 when
Medicare was signed into law by President Johnson.

Was social security originally intended to be a loan?


Ooops, I bunged it up again. How about unemployment ins.?



I don't know. I think unemployment benefits are taxable as income, so I
don't think they can be considered a "loan". Each state has different
rules, so how it all came to be .... who knows?


A loan is paid back, those receiving unemployment payments do not pay the money back. Those
receiving social security do not pay the money back. Remember that the SCOTUS has already
ruled that you have no claim on the money you paid into social security, it is a tax and not
an insurance product.