Why is Social Security Under Attack from Obama, when it ADDS NOTHING to the deficit???

[kenny blankenship]

12. Yep they first have to degrade and denature it

so it becomes A) Something that no longer has a stable, familiar shape which the little people are sure they understand, and B) it becomes something that does not look sustainable (cutting the payroll tax tied SS to the general fund deficit and erodes the program's previously well understood self-funding characteristic) and C) it becomes something that is less than adequate to the purpose which it was originally designed for. A deliberately degraded cost of living adjustment that cuts the benefits weakens the utility of the program and just as predictably lowers the attachment of the little people to their formerly beloved social insurance. By making it weak and useless, they can make it hated instead of loved and thus prime the people for the big sell-off of SS to Wall St.

Neoliberalism, both as economics and political economy, has been proved a fraud a dozen times over, theoretically, practically and historically, and yet the gangstas don't care. It enables their looting. Why should they care? They've got wiretaps on everyone, drones, tanks, pain rays, all the money, and 40 channels of slick corporate produced state sanctioned McPravda on their side.