Robert Reich: Selling the Store: Why Dems Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table

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27. It's not a 'compromise', it is policy. Using Republicans alone to get their hands on the SS fund

to gamble with on Wall St has had only mild success, eg, not raising benefits as much as they should have been and reducing the cost of living raises by fooling with inflation. But they cannot get what they really want without Democrats on board. The 'New Democrats' who have infiltrated the party are the final tools they needed to get their hands on SS.

No Democrat would go along with the lie that SS should even be in a conversation about the Deficit, it had zero to do with the deficit. The very fact that we have not heard this President state over and over again that Republicans are lying when they try to tie SS to the Deficit and that he will never, ever allow them to deceive the American people with that lie.

Where is the outrage from Democrats over the vile comments made by Alan Simpson about seniors and veterans?

Face it, this is, they think, a clever way to allow the theft of the SS fund which has been a goal of the Right for decades.

I guess I prefer honesty.

As MLK said 'it is not the words of our enemies that harm us the most, it is the silence of our friends' or words to that effect. Where are our Democratic Friends now when they are most needed? Their silence on these latest deceptions speak volumes.