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In reply to the discussion: I am not ready to eat crow and assume the cuts to Social Security are off the table. [View all]Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)26. If SS cuts are off the table now I suspect that they will be back on the table soon
The President seems determined to provide a sacrifice to Wall St.
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I am not ready to eat crow and assume the cuts to Social Security are off the table. [View all]
madfloridian
Dec 2012
OP
Sounds like everybody and their brother are throwing SS recipients under the bus.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#1
Yes, they have been rescuing it for years now. It never gets rescued enough.
madfloridian
Dec 2012
#6
K&R. I'm with you, madfloridian. I don't get where Boehner's failure = SS off the table!
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#5
ssi isn't social security, it's supplemental security income, paid from income taxes; aka
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#17
not medicaid either, separate program, doesn't do medical. it's income support.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#20
reagan, 1983 -- started taxing benefits & there were some other cuts as well, i believe.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#22
Vigilance is the price of liberty. No reason to eat crow, whatever happens. Ignore the agents.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#16
If SS cuts are off the table now I suspect that they will be back on the table soon
Teamster Jeff
Dec 2012
#26
"only way it comes off is if we convince them it will cost them more to keep it on."
madfloridian
Dec 2012
#34