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In reply to the discussion: Gals who have sex before 15 deserve what they get [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)If you're going to accuse President Obama and Progressives who believe we need to do something in order to avoid the 25% cut in benefits (unless, of course, you believe the SSA Trustee's Board are all partisan Republicans aka Third-wayers, too) that the SSA Trustees Board projects for 2033 - eight years earlier than they'd predicted in 2005 - then I can't help but believe you're afraid of black helicopters and bullshit 9/11 conspiracy theories like that, as well. And that link is to some blogger on DKos who gives his OWN definition what a Third-wayer is - a Republican. It appears that every LeftFringie believes that anyone who doesn't conform to their picture-perfect ideal world is a third-wayer. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, YOU are the third-wayer?
Anyway, here are a few "third-wayers" for your historical reference regarding Social Security reform:
President Carter CUT S.S. benefits with Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress voting almost unanimously for it. Were all those Democrats and President Carter "third-wayers"?
Tip O'Neill, generally known as the champion for Social Security, helped passed a bill to raise the retirement age that Reagan signed into law. Is he a Third-wayer now, too?
President Clinton CUT S.S. benefits when he signed into law the bill that would tax all social security benefits for beneficiaries who still work and make over $34K per year.
But not a whimper was heard. Fancy that.
Now, President Obama has proposed, in his comprehensive budget proposal that includes instituting universal Pre-K for the first time in American history, closes generous tax loopholes for millionaires and billionaires, shuts off the money-spigot of taxpayer dollar funded grants to Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Corps and only proposes a 0.3% of 1% COLA that amounts to about $3.00 per month {something seniors now save through ObamaCare having closed the donut-hole, no?}, and all hell breaks loose! He gets flack from both the AlwaysWrongRight and the LeftFringieBrigade as if he'd just proposed that they should saccrifice their first born to him on the steps of the WH.
If you want to express your poutrage about something, at least know the facts of its history so you'll at least appear to know what the hell you're talking about and that you don't come off looking like it's okay for White presidents to do something while it's forbidden for Black presidents to do something like it.