Reply #43: I think you're spot on, and here's why...

[converted_democrat]

If we get to the point that it looks like we are going to default, the first thing that will happen is cutting out SS, other pensions, medicare, and social programs.. That's always what the rich, and the pukes have wanted, but if a party were to try to cut it outright, it would amount to political suicide.. Another reason why I think it is true is look at Medicare Part D.. They intentionally made the program much more expensive than it had to be, and made it to where their friends in the drug companies would make out like bandits.. They get a two-fer, their friends get the money, and it hastens the program into financial straights.. The same with the war.. Lots of money being tossed around, too much, completely unaccounted for.. Again, the vast amount of money is going to R-wing friendly companies, and the rich that maintain the military industrial complex.. The same goes for the Highway Bill, and the Energy Bill.. They are intentionally driving our country over the edge so they can have what they wanted all along..

When SS is cut it will plunge something like 75- 100 million people into instant poverty, causing mass chaos.. They will then say for our own good they are going to "protect us" by tightening their grip..

My Dad is worth a considerable sum of money.. Growing up, I watched him loot 3 of his own companies.. The tactics that he used are just like what * and friends are pulling now, the only difference is that my Dad owned the companies that he pulled it on, and * and friends don't own our country..