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In reply to the discussion: We have ALREADY been sold out to austerity. The game will not change until we correct the narrative. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)28. Have they taken SS off the table yet? Get back to us when the President
makes a statement as clear as those made by Sen. Bernie Sanders and your comments will mean something.
I know what Nancy Pelosi said do you? Has she responded yet to the tens of thousands of calls she has received about this issue and about her statements regarding the Chained CPI?
Are you saying that Pelosi didn't understand the President and thought he was sincere in his offer?
Why don't you call her (good luck though she doesn't appear to be responding to calls) and let her know the President was just playing chess, again.
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We have ALREADY been sold out to austerity. The game will not change until we correct the narrative. [View all]
woo me with science
Dec 2012
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"the Democrats" are not sellouts. The sellouts are the internationalist Democratic politicians.
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#29
So now Obama, who was absolutely positively going to cave, but who didn't cave, is still evil.
JoePhilly
Dec 2012
#3
But I thought we wanted Obama to stand up to Boehner and the GOP even if that meant
JoePhilly
Dec 2012
#5
If it looks like a cave, sounds like a cave, and the President agrees it's a cave,
MannyGoldstein
Dec 2012
#30
Austerity, during a recession, is always the wrong choice and it's been tried and failed each time.
byeya
Dec 2012
#7
Bridges, municipal water purification systems; parks; hospitals; schools, etc, should be our
byeya
Dec 2012
#12
They are also not proposing fixing SS by returning money to the trust fund they "borrowed"
AndyA
Dec 2012
#31
Time to correct the narrative. Time to demand real, positive change.
woo me with science
Dec 2012
#11
Sorry Woo, but this is what I think being caught in the event horizon means.
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#33
The 1% are hoarding - that's right, hoarding - more money than in the history of humankind.
reformist2
Dec 2012
#14
18,500 workers at hostess have lost, or are losing, their livlihoods while the private capital
byeya
Dec 2012
#15
This horrid situation could be fixed with EFCA and modernization of national labor law.
byeya
Dec 2012
#27
Don't forget why austerity was imposed. Obama was the one who insisted that SS be "fixed"
Leopolds Ghost
Dec 2012
#23