Seniors Join Senator Sanders to Protest Billionaire "Cut Social Security" Conference

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Excerpt from "Entitled to Know" Blog Post:

Billionaires Against Social Security Unite
By NCPSSM | May 15, 2012
It’s that time of year again when all of America’s well-funded fiscal hawks, their lobbyists and political supporters spend the day rubbing elbows in an all-day anti-Social Security and Medicare love fest.

The Pete Peterson Fiscal Summit is one of the multi-billionaire Wall Street financier’s most visible legacies from his commitment to spend $1billion dollars in a campaign to convince America we can’t afford middle-class programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Claiming these programs have led to “generational theft” and “fiscal child abuse”, Peterson kicked off the event with the standard boiler plate calls to cut Social Security and Medicare under the guise of deficit reduction, just as the plan created by Fiscal commission co-chairs Bowles/Simpson proposed. Economist Dean Baker describes it this way:THE REST