Heads-Up !!! - 'Why Democrats Might Cave On Social Security Cuts' - HuffPo

[JDPriestly]

176. You are right. Nothing wrong with Social Security that more jobs and a higher minimum

wage wouldn't fix. But Hillary and Obama continue to support visas for overseas short-term workers who do jobs for low pay that would command decent pay if done by Americans who pay into Social Security over the long term and get raises for a job well done.

We can't throw our jobs to low-wage workers in other countries and expect to support our American lifestyle.

When the Soviet Union was a threat, the greediest of the "successful" capitalists (not all successful capitalists are that greedy, please, please, many are very generous and normal) supported good wages and a high standard of living for Americans. They were afraid that American workers would become Communists. Oh, dear!

The minute that they knew the Soviet Union was on its last, wobbling legs (around 1985) they came out of the closet with their free trade talk.

That was how they planned to finish the job on unions (begun by Reagan with Patco around 1981) and the American way of life. This housing crisis in 2008 was a big attack on the old fashioned view that ordinary Americans should own property, if not farming land (Jefferson's hope for America), then a home (thank you, FDR and the federal programs to help people buy homes). But now, the banks, in other words, wealthy bankers and their investors, are buying all the real estate they possibly can at the low prices that resulted from the 2008 crash.

And so, now, Social Security, the pillar of the American Middle and working class, is on the block. To be sold like the slaves to the likes of Dick Durbin and John Boehner (see his interview on Stephanopoulus on ABC this past Sunday. I think it was October 12, 2013.