Could this be a trend?

Yesterday, while Glenn and his every-willing sidekick anguished over the Constitutional-ripping of the new healthcare bill vote, Beck assured his grieving, tea-party revolutionaries, not to worry. With the vote, President Obama would no longer be able to lead.

His proof - wish I had a blackboard here - no president could lead with a job approval rating under 42%. The president's rating was at 43% and once it went down to 29% he would not be able to get above 42 again. No, I can't follow that, but try to stay with me here. The 43% was BEFORE the "fair and balanced" Brett Bair interview. So, surely, after that and the vote, down goes Obama! Down goes Obama!

Just wait until tomorrow.

It is now tomorrow. The president's approval rating...?

50%, so says Gallip.

Next on Beck. How the Marxist, socialist, communist liberals have taken over Gallop.
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They are just sore losers with a lot of hot air.

Name one thing the government has ran effectively. Everything they have touched is currently operating in the red. Im excited about the reform, but be weary of jumping for joy, this could be the biggest taxation bill in US history.

I am haveing a hard time comeing up with any private companies that are not running in the red. as far as government run programs I would say social security is running fine. The myth that it is broken is totaly false. The fund was built up for the baby boomers and now that they are retired it is being drawn down as it was designed to do. The trouble is this. instead of raising taxes or cuttind defense spending they borrowed from it. They simply do not wish for the IOU's to be cashed out.

How can social security be "fine" when it's been bankrupt for YEARS?

I think your uninformed.

The government has borrowed About $2.5 trillion from social security. The trouble is they do not wish to pay it back. Social security worked and had excess funds for the baby boomers when they retire. The problomb is it was looted.

Yes, and the looting began when Clinton was in office, look at the CBO score. IT will tell you everything you need to know. The fact is Obama has spent more in one year than Bush did in eight, as far as I am concerned, your complaint about money and Bush is at a stalemate. The war on iraq is a different issue, that i understand. If social security is grand and not in trouble then why does the age for qualification go up every ten to twenty years? The CBO will tell you that the SS program is running in the red, do not take my word for it. Most private business is fine, the problem is when you over burden the upper class with taxes. They are the ones who employ you, and they are the ones who are hurt the most. Im tired of our country being ran on a bell curve,this is not college. The economy is at its worst, why? because the people who own manufacturing companies are not hiring because of fear of Cap and Trade and Health care. You have no idea how much this will cost. Half of the savings the democrats brag about came from double counting money. They claim the bill will cost 940 billion, and the cbo says on some estimates it could be 2 trillions. Why are we passing a bill if we do not understand the cost? FYI my father opened up a small business and it is in the black,so your theory of every private company being red is bogus, they just have to work their aS- off so they can pay you to sit on your butt.

ow Is Social Security Funded?:
Social Security is funded through payroll taxes. Through 2017, Social Security collects more in tax revenues than it pays out in benefits because there are 3.3 younger workers for every beneficiary. This created a surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund.

However, in 2008 the first of 78 million Baby Boomers turned 62 and became eligible to draw down benefits. Over the next 30 years, there will be fewer and fewer workers per retiree to support Social Security via payroll taxes. By 2040, the Social Security Fund will be depleted and income will be insufficient to pay benefits promised to, and earned by,



http://useconomy.about.com/od/fiscalpolicy/p/Mandatory.htm

so social security is not bankrupt yet

they are changing it so it does not become bankrupt

and a private option would be a good idea but the dems shot it down in favor of a socialist form that is in place today

as is with the schools systems (vochers)competition brings efficiency and the dems vote down anything that competes with the govt

Oh yes just imagine how well off we would be if we would have invested social security into the stock market