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In reply to the discussion: Newest PPP poll out today has Hillary gaining momentum on all Dem candidates. [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)And example is that the GOP's SS funding rules change is hinged directly on the last 3 months of next year, dependent on the winner. Obama swore, and has kept his promise, 'SS will not be privatized on my watch.'
But all of the GOP candidates have sworn to privatize it, planning on the biggest theft of tax payer money yet from a program in no danger legally of going broke. They have just played with it to make it look that way, with a complicit billionaire owned MSM making an echo chamber.
Their current plan is to either take 20% off all disabled retired from their benefits permanently by December 2016, which will make some homeless. Or they will do what they wished to do the last time they pushed for default, slashing all SS benefits to 40% of total payout. They have already announced this. SS has said it is not necessary. So they have stopped the printing (but not the manufacture) of GAO reports to be used against them. I guess they'll get drunk reading all the details of who dies.
So many millions of people will be put in chaos that the current unemployment figures look great. Many jobs and businesses depend on people spending that money for healthcare, whatever.
It could end up as the greatest land grab since the Great Depression. People better get it together, not only those on SS will be hurt.
All for the want of a Democratic POTUS with a veto pen, or a way to fight them. All the Democratic candidates have sworn to go the opposite direction. The GOP wants to install their Koch brothers robosigner in office.