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In reply to the discussion: Obama campaign REFUSES to disclose plans on Social Security, says discussion belongs with senators [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)late and then attack those of us who pay attention and who are not willing to blindly follow anyone who is willing to sell out this country even in the smallest way.
There is simply NO EXCUSE to even be talking about SS in the same breath as the Deficit because no matter how deceptively they try to word it, SS had ZERO to do with the deficit and anyone who tries to pull that shit, is someone to be very suspicious of.
Politicians come and go, but the American people are left to deal with the disasters they leave behind. And anyone who cares about this President at all, will be doing everything in their power to make sure he does not go down in history as the politician who sold out on one of the Democratic Party's most successful and most popular Social Safety Nets.
Even Bush learned that despite all the advice he got that SS 'was no longer the third rail of politics' it WAS, it STILL IS, and while Republicans are expected to attack it, no Democrat should be doing anything other than fighting off anyone who even tries. I have not seen this President take a real stand, as Bernie Sanders does, eg, on SS and that makes me want to get a direct answer from him and from the Democratic Leadership.