My solution, painful as it is for any of us conservatives, is to accept the cold hard fact that all the money we've put into SS over the years we've worked is gone, and therefore we should simply avoid signing up for SS and Medicare when we reach retirement age. This will be painful for me personally, as I've just turned 60 (my husband is about to turn 63) and without SS/Medicare to look forward to, as well as grossly insufficient personal retirement savings due in part to factors beyond our control, we will have to work until we die. If a large number of conservatives were willing to publically make that sacrifice, the liberals then couldn't blame us for the demise of SS/Medicare because we've done the responsible thing.

Any judge worth his salt would have to declare a mistrial because Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder have clearly prejudiced any chance at a "fair" trial for KSM, et al, with their statements that they expect the defendants to be found guilty and executed after the trial. That was either stupid, or done on purpose so as to force a mistrial after proving President Bush and Vice-President Cheney to be just as "e-e-e-vil" as the left wing whiney babies believe they are (and, of course, also completely ruining any chance we have of preventing future attacks).

A conspiracy theorist would have to think this was done on purpose so as to allow KSM and his fellows to go free (where?) to continue their work to destroy the utterly evil US.

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...Obama and Holder first said they were going to have the KSM trial in NYC? They both expressed certainty that KSM would be found guilty. Can you spell "stupid?"

Does anyone with half a brain think there's any chance of seating a jury when the lawyers for KSM will challenge every single one of the jury pool? I'd be real surprised if there were a single New Yorker who could be considered neutral regarding 9-11.

Worse, even if they did manage to seat a jury, any judge worth his salt would practically have to declare a mistrial because of the comments by Obama and Holder. After all, even if KSM did admit to being guilty (and isn't even a US Citizen), he's supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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...Obama and Holder first said they were going to have the KSM trial in NYC? They both expressed certainty that KSM would be found guilty. Can you spell "stupid?"

Does anyone with half a brain think there's any chance of seating a jury when the lawyers for KSM will challenge every single one of the jury pool? I'd be real surprised if there were a single New Yorker who could be considered neutral regarding 9-11.

Worse, even if they did manage to seat a jury, any judge worth his salt would practically have to declare a mistrial because of the comments by Obama and Holder. After all, even if KSM did admit to being guilty (and isn't even a US Citizen), he's supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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...on the conservative side at least, know we'll have to keep working till the day we die, because even if we do get benefits, they'll be paid in badly inflated dollars. I, for one, will not even sign up for SS until at least 72, assuming I live that long, and I'll only sign up for Medicare when I'm forced by law to do so.

The other thing to keep in mind is that generally speaking we baby boomers are likely to be healthier than our parents were at our age--unless, of course, we insist on eating or drinking the wrong stuff, and we don't get the exercise we should.

I've put a lot of money into SS and Medicare I'd rather have spent or saved elsewhere, knowing full well that I would never get back even a fraction of the value...

...twice, in fact, once while I skimmed your screeds on this thread at work, and now again here at home. You need to wash your mouth out with soap.

You may be nicey nicey in person, but here you really let everyone know just how foul your heart and mind are. Clearly you choose to deny Reality and your place in it, with the result that you hate everyone as a projection of your own self-hatred onto all of us.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I find you a pathetic little person who needs to grow up. Coming to Townhall just to rant and rave at those of us who generally accept Reality and our places in it in hopes of making us feel as miserable as you do is the act of a contemptible human being.

So, since nothing you...

...Obama and Holder first said they were going to have the KSM trial in NYC? They both expressed certainty that KSM would be found guilty. Can you spell "stupid?"

Does anyone with half a brain think there's any chance of seating a jury when the lawyers for KSM will challenge every single one of the jury pool? I'd be real surprised if there were a single New Yorker who could be considered neutral regarding 9-11.

Worse, even if they did manage to seat a jury, any judge worth his salt would practically have to declare a mistrial because of the comments by Obama and Holder. After all, even if KSM did admit to being guilty (and isn't even a US Citizen), he's supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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