At last it's clear why repugs call for closed door negotiations again and again

[NobodyInParticular]

When Boehner brought up the need to cut Social Security and Medicare near the end of the Stephanapolis interview, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023798382#post10 he blurted out what's at the core of the right-wing agenda. They don't want the baby boomers to collect the benefits they earned over the years through hard work. They want the soc. sec. money siphoned off to the stock market where they can then cash it out and pocket it. But they don't dare to be open about it at a time like this--they know that the public is on to them, so they pull their cards at secret, closed-door meetings, hoping democratic negotiators will soften up and give them what they want...

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R. We have to make sure that voters in Republican districts get this message

in 2014. We have to hammer it into them. Vote Republican. Lose your Social Security, your Medicare and your ACA. Republicans want all the money for the oligarchs.

Thanks for this post. The Stephanopoulos interview is critical. Let's spread it around the internet. Post it everywhere you go. Boehner speaks for himself. Past governments have spent the baby boomers' retirement funds, and allowed the rich to bathe in the money by giving them huge tax breaks. Now it's time to pay the piper, but the Republicans don't want to make the self-appointed "job creators" to pay back what they received. The "job creators" took the baby boomer money and wasted it, destroyed our factories and shipped the jobs to India and China and Japan. We need that money now. It was a loan. Remember the Bush wars. He didn't raise the taxes to pay for them. He took the baby boomers' money. Remember the money lost in Iraq? That was the Baby Boomer's Social Security trust fund.

It's time to ordinary people take control of the country away from the rich who promise to create jobs but don't.

[hue]

6. Great response JDP! They have a plan & it's all for the oligarchs!!

You are sooo true re: the war in Iraq! That was an unfunded war to benefit their greed, paid for by us--the 98%!!

[malaise]

9. This should be an OP

Rec

[bulloney]

10. Boehner's district will vote him back in as long as he's running for the office.

His district is one of the most conservative Republican areas in the country, running from the northern suburbs of Cincinnati to some of the most rural, conservative parts of west-central Ohio. I've said for years that this area would vote for a Hitler/Stalin presidential ticket if they ran as Republicans. That's all they look for.

And if Boehner should not run for re-election, as was speculated several weeks ago, they'll just bring out another RW asshole and he/she will win in a landslide every election.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. What gets me is they are so selfish,...

....that they honestly believe everyone else is as well to the point where they just ASSUME old people will go along with eliminating Social Security if it doesn't effect current recipients. They tell the old folks they will get theirs and act confused as to why those same old people care if young people will be able to retire some day. They do their sales pitch and their logic seems perfect to them so they figure it's GOT to be the presentation.

Now if they can just get someone in Central Casting to give them a proper spokes-model.

They tried a cowboy and a business guy,...maybe they'll try a cop next.

[JDPriestly]

3. They want us to trust Wall Street. After the crash of 2007 and 2008 which were caused by a mix

of fraud and bad judgment, I certainly do not. No one should. We need much, much stricter controls, regulations and supervision of the trading on Wall Street. Much, much stricter. The markets are rigged as far as I am concerned.

[ejpoeta]

4. that's my thing... after what JUST happened.... so recently

that we are still feeling the effects personally and nationally.... how anyone can still think taking our retirement money and gambling with it is a good idea!! and there ARE people that think this.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. That is also why they run up the debt. They want people to buy stocks instead of bonds.

[KansDem]

5. "...to the stock market where they can then cash it out and pocket it."

That's really what this is all about, isn't it? The "Let Wall Street handle SS" bullshit has been around for awhile, but now it's glaringly obvious.

What galls me is the party that lied us into war in Iraq now claims it wants to cut government spending. That's right! $1.5 trillion (that we don't have) spent on lies and murder but no money (that we do have) for SS and Medicare!

I'm seething with rage this morning! These traitors have to be stopped!

[hue]

7. Also, Welcome to DU NobodyInParticular!

[NobodyInParticular]

13. Thanks,

even the best of hibernation can't last forever...

[silvershadow]

8. Newsflash: They're not coming for your guns. They're coming for what's left of your retirement.nt

[Laelth]

11. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[99Forever]

12. K&R