Discussion: Sen. Warren: GOPers Will Concoct A Crisis To Dismantle Social Security

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No, Senator Warren…they already concocted a crisis to dismantle Social Security…they have claimed that Social Security is going to go bankrupt, but if they hadn’t, you know, done something like steal all the money it was making in order to fund their wars and the Military Industrial Complex, it would go on into perpetuity.

Of course, I blame Prescott Bush and his cronies for starting the War on The Elderly.

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Republicans’ claim that this is about budget balancing is nonsense, Warren said.

“Republicans want to pretend this fight is all about dollars and cents. But at the end of the day, this is about a lot more than accounting: It’s about our values,” Warren said.

It’s also about logic: if the Repubs were genuinely concerned about budget balancing, they would take obvious steps to increase the revenue flowing into the Social Security program by, for example, raising the income level subject to the FICA tax. The fact that such a fix is “off the table” or “dead on arrival” (choose the meme) demonstrates conclusively that dollars and cents are irrelevant here.

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The new Republican act is the same old, tired and screamingly obvious act for anyone with more than a handful of working neurons. Why else the racist and violence-tinged wars on logic, facts and science joining their century old battle against social progress?

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That’s not news to those of us who read TPM, but i’m thankful Sens. Warren and Brown are out there rallying people against these conservative ideas (plots?).

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Crushing Social Security has been a goal of the richest since 1936 and used to be fodder for the jokes of Will Rogers. It just ain’t funny any more. Not to mention that this would never have happened if not for “Citizens United.” Well-meaning people must offset this by establishing a step-by-step strategy exactly as the oligarchs have done to get this far. It all starts with unraveling the entire banking system as it has grown to be under a form of useless “self-regulation” because those who regulate the system are in and of that system, hence are “experts.” Yes, they are experts at saving their system to the detriment of everyone else’s. America was a much simpler place when farming was our biggest economic sector. Those old rules cannot suffice in today’s world.

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Just like censorship…a little ban here, a little ban there…soon doubleplusgood!

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No…this is how the GOP finds the money to put boots on the ground in Syria and the Ukraine without raising taxes.

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Thanks Lizzie for adding to the agita I live with every day. Now you go home and sleep easy.

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Nice timing . . .

This was also posted here at TPM today.

TPM/This Chart by Dylan Scott 02/12/2015

This Chart: Social Security Disability ‘Crisis’ Might Already Be Over

One of the central arguments that liberals are deploying against the stated Republican intention to pursue Social Security changes this Congress is that the "crisis" that conservatives are seizing on has already passed.

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As evidence, the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published the above chart, tracking the slowing growth of Social Security disability rolls.

Thank you Dylan Scott.

~OGD~

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The GOP has a death wish for the middle class and anyone else not in the
1%. They have spent millions of dollars convincing people that SS is
going broke and not to count on it for your retirement. Not true. Do not
accept their propaganda. The GOP wants your money. They feel entitled to
your entitlements. Don’t give it to them.