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OldDem2012

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16. By reinforcing the fact that the GOP Tea-Nazis want to destroy SS any way possible....

Reply to Broward (Reply #15)

Wed Apr 10, 2013, 10:49 AM

Apr 2013

...he is creating a situation where retired and soon-to-be retired poor and middle-class GOPers will have to evaluate what's in their best interest in terms of how they will vote in 2014. They don't want SS touched any more than we do.

It's being used as a wedge issue, pure and simple.

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