Super Committee Going After Your Social Security? That Was the Point. (SS is on the table)

[Cali_Democrat]

It's looking more and more like the debt deal reached between Obama and the Republicans in Congress was nothing more than a vehicle to cut Medicare and Social Security.

The deal was portrayed as bipartisanship and compromise, but of course it was actually the middle class that was getting the shaft all along.

Super Committee Going After Your Social Security? That Was the Point
By: Jon Walker Tuesday November 1, 2011 9:27 am

It was clear from the inception of the deficit reduction Super Committee that it was designed for the purpose of cutting entitlements, especially Social Security benefits. The Super Committee proposal was given the same protection from a filibuster as debate on a reconciliation bill, but the Super Committee proposal is not subject to the same Byrd Rule (PDF) that prevents the Senate from using reconciliation to fast track Social Security cuts. The procedural rules governing the Super Committee couldn’t have been more purposely designed to make cutting Social Security as easy as procedurally possible.

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There should be no doubt that your Social Security is in serious danger right now. It has been in serious danger ever since the Super Committee was purposely created in such away to make it easier to cut the program.

Read the whole piece: http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/11/01/super-committee-going-after-your-social-security-that-was-the-point/

Those of us paying attention knew how the game was being played. The game is rigged and it's rigged against the poor and the middle class.

This is your class warfare. It's the 1% waging war on the 99%.