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ErikJ

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6. Plutocrats 2 prong strategy with this hoax.

Reply to limpyhobbler (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 09:09 PM

Jan 2013

Keep including the SS trust fund as part of the general fund so they can keep their top marginal taxes and corporate taxes historically low;

and create confusion and fear that SS is going to go broke so they can privatize it for the Wall Street bankster cronies.

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The Hoax of Entitlement Reform with Robert Reich [View all] limpyhobbler Jan 2013 OP

Reich tells it like it is! marew Jan 2013 #1

A corporatist government will willingly renege on benefits earned by social security and indepat Jan 2013 #2

^This^ bvar22 Jan 2013 #3

Centrist Democrats help perpetuate a corporatist government instead of a government that indepat Jan 2013 #4

K&R "I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans." Paul Wellstone midnight Jan 2013 #8

K&R JDPriestly Jan 2013 #5

Plutocrats 2 prong strategy with this hoax. ErikJ Jan 2013 #6

kick Faryn Balyncd Jan 2013 #7

Right on. blackspade Jan 2013 #9