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Related: About this forumWhat a Labor Leader Said in Response to a Social Security Lie
How do I vote for the guy who media "doesn't believe in." I'm glad to hear what "most people" believe. The real thing is to have them realize is that "most people" don't believe in them.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 23, 2013, 11:03 AM - Edit history (2)
I am so sick of the right wing gasbags calling the money I PUT IN since I was 14 years old an entitlement.
Social Security is NOT an ENTITLEMENT It is money I have given to the government so I wouldn't be dirt poor when I get too old to work.
And every moderate voice on every show MUST correct this lie. They MUST.
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)You are bloody well entitled to it. Amazing how the media and the right-wing spinners have been able to turn "entitlement" into a dirty word. Just as they did with "liberal."
-- Mal
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)You must be a brewer, malthaussen. I used to be a home brewer until the gluten thing hit me.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)They are corporate owned.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)RVN VET
(492 posts)They're 1%-ers or 1%-wannabes who've bought into the bullshit about social programs because it makes them feel comfortable to do so. They're lost to the truth because the lies they accept as true allow them to continue comfortably in their worship of greed.
I despise them for their ignorance and pity them their cold lack of compassion. But I'm just not so sure they're actually lying -- in their own cold, shriveled, stoney hearts, they think, in full invincible ignorance, that they're on the side of truth.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)the teabaggers, right wing hate radio listeners, ALEC supporters and the owners of Wal Mart?
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)for getting the money back from the banks they gave it to. They could put that into Social Security and help stabilize that. If not this is just the second part of redistributing funds from the people who don't have much to the people who have more than enough.
The Wizard
(12,532 posts)means to make the gap between the wealthy elites and the working class greater. I got you grand bargain, right here. Here's your grand bargain.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)lastlib
(23,135 posts)Every question he got was loaded with corporate poo, and he flung it right back at them! Is is NOT a hard truth that the solution to the budget deficit is to "rein in" these programs; the fact is that they are likely the most-well-funded programs of the federal government!
Highly recommend this!
spooky3
(34,401 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)I get sick of the few rich people trying to get rid of social security while owning companies making billions off the backs of us with tax abatements, corporate welfare, low wages except for a few of them, and lack of responsibility towards the environment. The fascist movement in our government has to be slowed down to a crawl before any common-sense thinking American even considers getting rid of the only social benefit keeping a majority of retirees out of poverty.
just look at the sig line.
I actually sent it, and a couple of other thoughts, to Sen. Warren.
Still waiting for a reply, but I just get the automated emails.
I know she's busy...
Skeeter Barnes
(994 posts)and operated Democratic party. We know Republicans have always had it in for us. The Democratic party has moved so far to the right that they now take some of the same positions. Piss on any of them that want to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)That was a thing of beauty! How dare he not agree with the plutocrat narrative, lol.
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)with a ? at the end. Good for Mr. Silvers for standing his ground and talking over the lies.
TAX THE RICH!!! They already have ALL the money!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)pricks liars!!
Where are the rest of our truth in your face Warriors?
Trying to get re-elected, that's where.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Corporate media ain't having any of it. Won't hear repeats of this huh. Just like the F-up filibuster bullshit and corporate media again spreading only the RWers talking points.
Social media is the key as well as word by mouth to get the truth out there! This should go viral!!!!
geefloyd46
(1,939 posts)what they should believe. Must be a computer glitch.
bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)Kermitt Gribble
(1,855 posts)Excellent clip.
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)Bravo!
loudsue
(14,087 posts)of the deficit....it is funded separately, and the ONLY tweek it needs to stay viable is to RAISE the maximum salaries that are affected by it.....more people need to put into it that are making the big bucks.....and LIMIT the maximum payout per month at the highest end.
spooky3
(34,401 posts)That makes the point even more strongly, since if they knew they were truly right, they would have an immediate response with more evidence to back them up.
emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Stevepol
(4,234 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)notice at the very end the CNBC guy basically admitted he sees the U.S. as a plutocracy, and Silvers picked up on it.