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Worth reading as Obama considers cutting Social Security: The Bad Deal

Obama gets Social Security facts wrong

Your ass is on line as well as the asses of millions of working class Americans…Go here to read this great article : HERE AT HUFFPOST

President Obama and the Tea Party Congress will most likely end up culling the absolute worst elements from the deficit reduction plans put forth so far, tie them together into a “package,” slap a “bipartisan” label on it (which inside the Beltway is close to godliness), and then ram it down our throats by triangulating against what remains of the progressives in Congress.

Politicians, pundits, commentators, and citizens must choose a side now. You’re either on the oligarchy’s side or on the people’s side. It’s D-Day in the class war.

We’ve been told lately, again from “bipartisan” sources, that American soldiers will be fighting and dying in Afghanistan well past Obama’s July 2011 “deadline,” and the war will continue until at least the end of 2014, (at which time they’ll just move the bar to 2018 or 2020 or 2030). Newly-minted “deficit hawks” should ask the question: Is it worth it to drop another $350 billion into Afghanistan? Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institute, and others like him, think so, but they aren’t making an argument for staying in Afghanistan — they’re manufacturing consent. Now the Peter Petersons and the rest of them are manufacturing consent on the deficit too.

D-Day in the Class War

Obama Appointed Debt Commission To Target Social Security, Medicare

There is one line in the sand, however: Social Security. Social Security is THE bedrock social compact that binds this nation together through generation after generation. It is THE signature achievement of modern American democracy. It is the foundation program of the modern Democratic Party. There is nothing wrong with it. It produces substantial surpluses every single year and will for many years into the future. It is the one program that ties youth, work, sacrifice, perseverance, aging, sickness, old age, and death together all at once. It is so important, it nears the sacred. For that reason, there is really no reason at all to remain a Democrat if a Democratic president cuts Social Security. For now, I take the president at his word when he says he prefers to raise taxes on the wealthy to account for distant shortfalls in the program. But when he says, “All options are on the table,” I start to worry. It makes me fearful that he will mess around with the last, best, hope of an impoverished middle class. Make no mistake: Cutting Social Security is a dealbreaker, pure and simple. Cut it, and I’m gone.

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