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In reply to the discussion: Social Security belongs to the American people. It is not Obama's to bargain with. [View all]Festivito
(13,452 posts)Yes, we deserve this one crumb. We grew it, harvested it, put it together, cooked it and now the master wants to eat it even though it was promised to us.
Are we to be happy if we just get our crumb back? We earned more than that crumb than the master earned his by being born in the luckier womb. It shouldn't be about luckier wombs. If we do not respect ourselves enough to get more of we we all deserve, no one else should should respect us either.
The House Republicans have us over a barrel. If we give them nothing, they destroy the economy hurting all of us from unlucky wombs while further destroying how much we can put into SS making it more vulnerable than the predictors predicted.
As to which is worse for us, I do not know, I wish we had the numbers calculated by those predictors.
This might be like voting for a Democrat, not because one likes the particular Democrat, rather, we vote for the Democrat because we have to vote against the Republican.
Do we here have to shout for a crumb, so we don't end up with an even smaller portion of crumb than we certainly deserve? Or, do we have to wait until we are even more destitute than we were when Republicans kept, by winning, the House?
2 million signed Bernie's petition out of 200-300 million. It should be 2 million that didn't sign it and 200-million that did. We are the voices of one crying in the wilderness as of yet.
It's a nice piece you wrote, a great piece, we want the same end. I just wish it looked to me like we are really heading there.
Be well, good soul. I have to go back to work.