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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "This is An Artificial Crisis, to Steal From the Middle Class" [View all]Overseas
(12,121 posts)55. K&R. Yes it is. More Democrats need to come out firmly on this. No Changes Needed on SSI, Medicare
and Medicaid now.
Right wing and conservative major media drumbeat on entitlement reform is just propaganda. We do not need it. Not now. Not until large cuts to much more wasteful programs are done and more revenue is raised.
We need to cut war profiteering and de-privatize military services, that would save billions.
We need a tiny transaction tax on Wall Street trades, which would probably reduce the millions of shares traded by robots.
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yes, and the CBO has cooked the books to provide "evidence" for their scaremongering:
amborin
Nov 2012
#1
jesus, why can't we just see what the deal is before setting our toupees on fire. n/t
Whisp
Nov 2012
#5
You don't stand in front of a firing squad and say, "Let's see if they really do this".
Fuddnik
Nov 2012
#28
Like that would ever fly! I love them both, but "radical" thinking will not get elected in
juajen
Nov 2012
#46
Wow! I love Mr. Grayson even more now for mentioning The Shock Doctrine on the air...
OneGrassRoot
Nov 2012
#35
Thank you , Congressman Grayson. The "Grand Bargain" is a Grand-Sham. NO WAY
BlueCaliDem
Nov 2012
#44