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rhett o rick

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5. The money that will be "saved" by cutting benefits will not go to help the deficit.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 06:39 PM

Dec 2012

It will only make SS viable longer. Raising the cap would be a better solution for that. Since it has nothing to do with the deficit, it is only being used by the president as a bargaining chip. It's as if the president is saying, "If we screw SS recipients and federal retirees, will you be nice?" And the Republicans are laughing thinking "sure just like the last few times we screwed you over."

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Austerity: Stealing social security to pay for tax cuts for the rich. [View all] Fire Walk With Me Dec 2012 OP

Yep, that's where we're at ... and as we go down the path future cuts will come too, RKP5637 Dec 2012 #1

This is the psychological tactic called "normalization". Slowly getting people used to the Fire Walk With Me Dec 2012 #4

The Rubicon was crossed with the "Payroll Tax Holiday". bvar22 Dec 2012 #6

"... and it took a "Democrat" to roll it up to the gates." Another Trojan Horse, I fear. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #11

The Democrats will make privatized SS look good leftstreet Dec 2012 #2

A ghoulish Bowles-Simpson-type RW panacea for all indepat Dec 2012 #3

The money that will be "saved" by cutting benefits will not go to help the deficit. rhett o rick Dec 2012 #5

I am boycotting the USA riverbendviewgal Dec 2012 #7

That it is! Definitely! It gets more creepy all the time. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #12

I'd say it's an even more twisted version of fascism savebigbird Dec 2012 #8

There is no doubt, anymore. Now, what to do. n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #13

HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2012 #9

Oh hell, this needs to be kicked... socialist_n_TN Dec 2012 #10

Kick for Justice. Octafish Dec 2012 #14

I'll provide another kick...... socialist_n_TN Dec 2012 #15