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Showing Original Post only (View all)Republican Nightmare Bernie Sanders EXPOSES GOP Social Security KILLING DREAMS On National TV [View all]
Bernie Sanders is becoming a daily nightmare for Republicans. Sen. Sanders went on CNN today and cut through the Republican double talk by letting the entire country know the GOP plan for killing Social Security. On CNNs Wolf, Sanders said, Look, what Perry and these other guys are talking about, this is the decade-long attack on Social Security by the Republican Party. They want to privatize it eventually. They want to make cuts. We have millions of seniors struggling twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand dollars a year. I will not accepting cutting Social Security.
Blitzer asked Sanders about means testing and if millionaires and benefits deserve to get benefits. The Democratic presidential candidate answered, Theyre not talking about millionaires and billionaires. Theyre talking about lowering it to forty thousand dollars a year Its a universal program. Everybody deserves to put into it. Everybody deserves to get a benefit out of it. We can extend that program by not asking anybody more than the top two percent to contribute into it.
Republicans love to talk about saving Social Security and entitlement reform. What they dont tell the American people is that they plan to save the program by killing it. Republicans oppose raising the earnings cap so that wealthy Americans pay more into the fund. What they support is imposing means testing requirements that will take Social Security away from anyone earning a middle-class income. In short, Republicans want to kill Social Security.
Bernie Sanders has become an even bigger nightmare for Republicans because, as a presidential candidate with growing support, he can get on national television and speak the truth to more Americans than ever before. Sanders is shaping more than the 2016 presidential campaign. The Senator from Vermont is also shifting the national political conversation.
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Blitzer asked Sanders about means testing and if millionaires and benefits deserve to get benefits. The Democratic presidential candidate answered, Theyre not talking about millionaires and billionaires. Theyre talking about lowering it to forty thousand dollars a year Its a universal program. Everybody deserves to put into it. Everybody deserves to get a benefit out of it. We can extend that program by not asking anybody more than the top two percent to contribute into it.
Republicans love to talk about saving Social Security and entitlement reform. What they dont tell the American people is that they plan to save the program by killing it. Republicans oppose raising the earnings cap so that wealthy Americans pay more into the fund. What they support is imposing means testing requirements that will take Social Security away from anyone earning a middle-class income. In short, Republicans want to kill Social Security.
Bernie Sanders has become an even bigger nightmare for Republicans because, as a presidential candidate with growing support, he can get on national television and speak the truth to more Americans than ever before. Sanders is shaping more than the 2016 presidential campaign. The Senator from Vermont is also shifting the national political conversation.

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Republican Nightmare Bernie Sanders EXPOSES GOP Social Security KILLING DREAMS On National TV [View all]
Segami
Jun 2015
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EXPOSURE is the key...GO BERNIE, and dont think for one second if he is not elected
randys1
Jun 2015
#3
I can't agree with you about nothing but UP for any Dem candidate to adopt Bernie's agenda.
A Simple Game
Jun 2015
#9
Oh hell, that includes tons of people I doubt you want to criticize, think about it
randys1
Jun 2015
#14
Politics has become a year round money making system, it is much more obvious on the
A Simple Game
Jun 2015
#17
Yes, show me how any Dem candidate has made financial profit a priority in their
randys1
Jun 2015
#16
I agree. He may even wake up some of the deluded lower class base of the Republican Party.
lostnfound
Jun 2015
#37
Bernie thinks clearly, speaks succinctly and presents policies that would be easy to implement.
JDPriestly
Jun 2015
#5
K&R! Go get 'em, Bernie! (Disclaimer: I mean these words as written, not as Urban Dictionary says)
peacebird
Jun 2015
#7
Did notice that on some occasions, Wolf attempted to interrupt Berrie's answers but Bernie
ladjf
Jun 2015
#78
Chained CPI = Catfood Commission. WH & some Dems. sent out bipartisan team to promote
appalachiablue
Jun 2015
#39
I just want to add a hearty "Fuck You, FOX Blitzer" to this delightful thread.
Ed Suspicious
Jun 2015
#33
Damn it's refreshing to have a candidate who takes it right to the extremist Republican morons.
sabrina 1
Jun 2015
#45
I Will No Longer Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go
cantbeserious
Jun 2015
#56
I Will Still Vote For Bernie - The Write-In Ballot Works Just Fine - Thank You
cantbeserious
Jun 2015
#73
I Will No Longer Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go
cantbeserious
Jun 2015
#84
Then One Can Expect Another Centrist Administration That Jumps Every Time The Corporations Call
cantbeserious
Jun 2015
#92
Am Prepared For The Worst - Principle Is More Important Than Party For Some
cantbeserious
Jun 2015
#94
That argument has been debunked so many times I am not going to bother doing so again. Bernie is
sabrina 1
Jun 2015
#89
Poor Wolf, your conservative make-believe world may just be coming to an end.
Gregorian
Jun 2015
#62
its good to keep reminding them but Bernie was not the first to point this out
samsingh
Jun 2015
#68
K&R But it isn't just the republicans in name who want it dead, but also those in spirit.
raouldukelives
Jun 2015
#72