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On 6/25/2025 8:59 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:53:16 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 6/21/25 11:57, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 6/21/2025 11:15 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the crisis because the OAS fund cannot
>>>>> pay elderly SS subscribers due to the government
>>>>> pilfering it, or is it because the government
>>>>> pilfering has to stop when the money is all gone?
>>>>
>>>> The government pilfering is a problem, and it's been happening since
>>>> Reagan.
>>>>
>>>> The aging population is also a problem, with fewer younger people paying
>>>> into the system as more aging people are paid by it.  (And yes, higher
>>>> immigration rates can fix this one.)
>>>>
>>>> Some people have made the argument that mathematically, if the cap on
>>>> income was removed from the social security witholdings, so that
>>>> billionaires were paying at the same percentage rate as millionaires
>>>> instead of the same amount, that it would solve the current OAS deficit
>>>> problem.  This is true, and it's certainly a good plan from any viewpoint
>>>> except that of the very rich, but it's also kicking the can down the road
>>>> a bit since eventually the very rich are likely to get paid back a good
>>>> portion of that a generation later.
>>>> --scott
>>>
>>> Higher immigration will not fix this problem as most of the immigrants
>>> are uneducated and cannot speak the majority language, English.
>>>
>>> It used to be that we allowed immigration to the USA for college
>>> graduates and English competency only.  We still allow about 1.3 million
>>> people per year to immigrant legally to the USA, mostly family of
>>> existing citizens.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>
>> 	Lynn you are buying the right wing lies again. Immigrants are pursuing more
>> education than ever before...
>> 	Most of the undocumented would not take those jobs that Americans would
>> not take if they were totally able to deal with people in English.
>> Yesterday the
>> Father of several Marine sons who is pursuing the immunity due to parents
>> of Military was arrested by ICE as he was doing the landscaping at a chain
>> restaurant and they accused him of attacking them with a weed wacker when
>> he was trying to run away. As usual with ICE they presented no warrant and
>> were masked. He just had darker skin.
> 
> Huh.
> 
> I thought Trump ordered all people wearing masks to be arrested.
> 
> So why haven't the alleged ICE Agents wearing masks been -- arrested?
> 
> The excessive focus on "people who look like Mexicans" ("racism") has
> been apparent for quite some time.
> 
> As has their sloppiness and inefficiency.
> 
> The effects of their efforts should be apparent next year at the food
> store and on the kitchen table.
> 
Or, its already being felt.  I've seen a couple of articles about the 
disappearance of the lunch trucks (aka Taco Trucks) doing curbside business.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.