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Yonnie3

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9. "The hate of protected pensions runs deep in conservative world"

Reply to beachbum bob (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 3, 2017, 03:53 PM

Jul 2017

It's much the same for Social Security and Medicare. It still astounds me that they use the word "entitlement" to mean some thing different and bad. They say let's "privatize" it which translates to "we are going to let our chosen few get rich on this."

Thanks for the additional information on Illinois' situation.

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