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sabrina 1

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20. They are messing with the People's Pension Fund. They have no right to

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #14)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:59 PM

Dec 2012

touch that fund to pay fro the corrupt, gambling debts of Wall Street. That fund does not belong to the Federal Government. So why is it still 'on the table'?

No wonder Feinstein and Boxer won't answer calls asking them to make a statement about taking SS of the Deficit table where it never belonged. Maybe because they know that a deal was already made.

IF this happens, it will be the biggest betrayal of the people who elected him by a Democratic President in my memory. He will be the first Dem President to agree to use the SS fund as a bargaining chip with the party of Wall St.

Let's hope it's not true because if it is, as the Coalition of Unions and Progressive Organizations have warned, 'there will be hell to pay'.

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