Will Hillary protect Social Security

[FreakinDJ]

Just as we were shocked to see Obama put Social Security "On the Table" is Hillary already signaling "Its a Done Deal" supporting Paul Ryan's plan ?

Why It's Misleading to Swear to Protect the Poor's Social-Security Benefits


In the Democratic debate in Las Vegas last week, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash whether she supported Bernie Sanders’s plan to expand Social Security. She didn’t give the clearest answer: “Well, I fully support Social Security … and the most important fight we’re going to have is defending it against continuing Republican efforts to privatize it,” she responded, in part. She didn’t say yes. Instead, she said that she favored increasing benefits for the poorest people in the program.

That specific phrase, which is similar to Donald Trump’s stated position on the matter, worried some who want to protect Social Security. Their concern is that any deal that increases benefits for the poorest retirees will also involve cutting benefits for the middle class—and they fear the political consequences of doing so.

A plan like that is currently on the table, though Clinton is unlikely to support it. It’s being proposed by Representative Paul Ryan, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, and it’s claimed to protect the “poorest recipients” from cuts. Ryan’s proposal is a recycled version of an older plan, originally put forward by George W. Bush’s administration, that would have reduced benefits for the upper 70 percent of earners and maintained them for the bottom 30 percent. In 2010, when Ryan first proposed this plan, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities concluded that it would produce “a system in which Social Security is very unattractive to affluent people.”


So while Clinton has not yet put forward a plan to keep Social Security solvent and equitable, the choices she has are limited and well defined.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/hillary-social-security/411901/

[leveymg]

1. On preserving SS, she is Paul Ryan in drag. She won't lift the cap

So she might as well be a Republican millionaire.

[Wilms]

6. She is a Republican millionaire.

And a neo-con.

[leveymg]

12. Someone has to pay for her next wars, and it won't be people

like her.

[Wilms]

15. No it won't.

And we'll wind up with a new wardrobe.

[leveymg]

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[kristopher]

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[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. She doesn't seem interested

[hedda_foil]

3. I heard it the same way. Not a yes at all.

And we have learned some very hard lessons about what the meaning of is is.

Right now, the Republicans seem to be in favor of dumping the whole program, not just privatizing it.

[snoringvoter]

4. Short answer: No.

I don't trust her with Social Security. She'll screw it up.

[daleanime]

5. If by preserve you mean cut....

then yes, yes she will.

[dflprincess]

7. I don't trust any Third Way/DLC/"New" Democrat

(whatever the hell they call themselves these days)

when it comes to Social Security.

[Autumn]

8. No, she would offer it up in a New York minute.

[jeff47]

9. No, her stated policy is to add a means-tested bonus to lower-income people

That way it becomes a program for "those people", and can be much more easily dismantled. Like Welfare.

[Punkingal]

10. No.

[EndElectoral]

11. Has she committed to raising the cap yet?

[liberal N proud]

13. The Social Security scare card

The boogie man oooh!

[onecaliberal]

14. No! She'll protect the cap for the wealthy instead of making them pay their share like

Everyone else.

[left-of-center2012]

16. "Will Hillary protect Social Security"

If it's in Wall Street's interest.

[cascadiance]

18. Well, she's also made a big deal on Sanders' Thom Hartmann program comments on "primarying Obama"...

... when Bernie responded to a callers' concern about Obama negotiating cuts to social security that perhaps someone should primary him to get some discussion in a primary then on whether that should be done or not. Apparently Hillary's campaign had more of a problem with Bernie's thoughts on primarying Obama, making it sound like that was a big orchestrated plan on his part.

Well, given that she seems to think that was more of a problem than Obama's threats to cut social security, maybe we should also be allowed to interpret those comments and her campaigns reaction to it that she felt Obama should be protected in wanting to cut social security and therefore would be willing and perhaps even want to cut social security herself. The speculation game can be played both ways if they want to start it!!!

[tk2kewl]

19. Isn't she running for Obama's 3rd term as of the last debate?

[WillyT]

20. No.

[bigwillq]

21. Not sure

I don't want to find out either way.

[Live and Learn]

22. I have zero trust in her. nt

[CharlotteVale]

23. No. She cannot be trusted.

[antigop]

24. Read what Hillary said about Social Security v e r y carefully.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251678744

[Old Crow]

25. Of course not. Next question. (N/T)

[ViseGrip]

26. Another reason i'll never vote for her.

[gordyfl]

27. Raise the Retirement Age

Not long ago Hillary was asked if she would allow raising the retirement age. She gave a vague answer. I don't trust her on this issue.

[BlueMTexpat]

29. Any one of the three Dem

candidates will support SS.

None of the GOPers will.

That is the essential difference.

[Katashi_itto]

30. LOLOLOLOLOLOL.........no.

[hobbit709]

31. She will protect what her $pon$or$ want protected-nothing else.

[raouldukelives]

32. Increasing benefits for those not in the middle class. 250k

Seems like a good idea.