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In reply to the discussion: Check in here if you think NO DEAL before the New Year is a VICTORY [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The super-rich in this country have taken care of themselves. They climbed in their financial lifeboats and left our shores long ago.
I don't think we have a choice. I don't think that "compromising" on Social Security will help the economy. It would just exclude a lot of very elderly people from our economy.
Wall Street wants to own us. They want to make us pay to live in our own bodies. They own everything else in this country, and now they want to get their greedy hands on our Social Security money.
No. Thanks. I would rather that the US government watch my money.
There is no problem with Social Security that creating jobs in this country wouldn't solve.
Problem is, the rich have most of the money. And they could care less about what happens to this country as long as we have a strong military that protects their overseas investments. They think only of themselves.
The Social Security Trust Fund would be in great shape if rich Americans invested in jobs in this country and worked to protect our workers, American workers, from the sucking sound of free trade.
That is not what they are doing. I say tax them and take the tax revenue and let the government invest in jobs in our country with it.
And no cuts whatsoever to Social Security.