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In reply to the discussion: Criticize the President? We should not even be having serious conversations about this. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)the most vulnerable'. The SS Fund can do that without any interference from the president, or the Republicans who asked him to do it. This turns independent poor people into 'welfare cases'. What is so hard for you to get about this? He has introduced SS into Deficit discussions, this is, as his own spokesperson confirmed, only because 'Republicans asked him to'.
Democrats asked him NOT to.
I did not work to elect a Democrat so that we would get more rotten Republican ideas implemented. I did that to prevent these rotten ideas from being implemented.
Why do you think this President does what Republicans ask and ignores Democrats?
The SS fund has more than enough of a surplus to take care of the needs of all SS recipients. SS does not belong in any discussions, budget talks etc that have anything to do with the deficit and no amount of excuses are going to change that.