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In reply to the discussion: Ed Rendell: Obama cutting Social Security would be like Lincoln freeing the slaves [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)7. Logic fail
Social security keeps the elderly from abject poverty...like slavery.
Cutting social security would be like Obama instituting Jim Crow laws for the elderly.
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Ed Rendell: Obama cutting Social Security would be like Lincoln freeing the slaves [View all]
Report1212
Jan 2013
OP
Nope. Remove the cap on social security taxes and allow everyone to buy into medicare coverage
peacebird
Jan 2013
#2
Why doesn't this piece of shit request cuts on his bloated pension first? nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jan 2013
#12
Can't Stand Rendell. Obama needs to increase the SS wage limit to $150,000, minimum.
Zen Democrat
Jan 2013
#16
Nice to see the elimination of the payroll tax holiday end talks of cutting Social Security.
W_HAMILTON
Jan 2013
#21
It isn't purist bullshit. Except for a few Democrats, and some like Bernie Sanders, they would be
still_one
Jan 2013
#36
That is exactly what I am saying. This isn't a "purest" of anything I am saying, this is what most
still_one
Jan 2013
#35