Fix the Debt (cut social security) is a true bipartisan operation [View all]

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The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation’s “debt problem.”

Ed Rendell is a co-chairman of Fix the Debt. In media appearances, he is only introduced as the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania (2003-2011), yet he has extensive corporate and financial ties. Erskine Bowles is a Clinton man (White house chief of staff 1997-98). Bowles and Simpson are Obama men, hand-picked by our president to lead his personal “fix the debt” commission aka the Catfood Commission. Judd Gregg was the Republican that Obama wanted to install in his first-term cabinet...

Phil Bredesen is on Fix the Debt’s steering committee. As Democratic governor of Tennessee, he “presided over the largest state cutback of public health programs in the history of our nation,” according to health care advocacy group FamiliesUSA...

Vic Fazio is on Fix the Debt’s steering committee. He is a former [Democratic] member of Congress (1979-1999) who works as a corporate lobbyist. He has lobbied for AT&T, Corrections Corporation of America, Archer Daniels Midland, Shell Oil...

Sam Nunn is on Fix the Debt’s steering committee. He was the longtime (Democratic) chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee (1987–1995)...

Steven Rattner is on Fix the Debt’s steering committee. He is a former investment banker for two decades at Lehman Brothers, Lazard Freres and Morgan Stanley. Rattner was the Treasury Department’s point man on the 2009 bailout of the auto industry by the Obama administration. He is on the board of the New America Foundation, the Pete Peterson-funded parent organization of Fix the Debt...

Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat who has been Los Angeles’ 41st mayor since July 1, 2005, is on Fix the Debt’s steering committee. He was President of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2011-2012. He has previously been the Democratic leader and Speaker of the California State Assembly... He was also Chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in September 2012. And that just takes you down through the steering committee....

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/the-democratic-turncoats-behind-the-fix-the-debt-attack-on-medicare-social-security.html