Social Security's Death Warrant Was Just Signed -- Are You Ready? [View all]

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https://hartmannreport.com/p/social-securitys-death-warrant-was-45f

Republicans and their morbidly rich donors have hated Social Security ever since it was first created in 1935. They’ve called it everything from communism to socialism to a Ponzi scheme.

In fact, it has been the most successful anti-poverty program in the history of America, one now emulated by virtually every democracy in the world.

But the rightwing billionaires hate it for several reasons.

The first and most important reason is that it demonstrates that government can actually work for people and society: That then provides credibility for other government programs that billionaires hate even more, like regulating their pollution, breaking up their monopolies, making their social media platforms less toxic, and preventing them from ripping off average American consumers.

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By firing thousands of employees, their evil plan is to make interacting with Social Security such a difficult and painful process — involving months to make an appointment and hours or even days just to get someone on the telephone — that retired Americans will get angry with the government and begin to listen to Republicans and Wall Street bankers who tell us they should run the system. . . .

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