IIRC, their 'source' was the AARP, whose leadership changed during the Bush administration to hand out GOP talking points to the elderly. I explained they were in the group which PBO demanded to be held 'forever harmless' by future increases in Medicare A&B.
And that the ones getting the most airtime are those in that 30% who also resist the cap, calling it 'sell out' and tarring Obama with endless calumnies. And that the $50 a month increase hits a group that has $120K in income. So that $600 a year is going to break them?
The universalist meme which calls such analysis petty or unfair, inevitably fails as we look at lifetime relationships. There are the advantaged from hard work and the advantaged from doing white collar or other kinds of crime. Once the money is in their hands, they will do anything to keep it all to themselves.
Spreading disinformation is a great tool and it easily catches fire in the minds of those who are afraid. As well they should be, but they are still misinformed.
As people age and are less active in politics, as well as those who are much older and expect Social Security as a birthright, they may jump at any threat. The New Deal program was more than a twinkle in the patriot Thomas Paine's eye. The Social Security site had his essay, 'Agrarian Justice' highlighted when Obama was elected.
Now one has to go into the SSA. gov archives for it. The intent of a payment to those who were dispossessed of the means of the production (land, etc.) through warfare of which there is more than one kind, to bring peace in the world by equalizing the loss of natural inheritance by seizures to give wealth to a select few. This is not a theory, it the history of the human race and Paine was very aware of this aspect, whether he liked it or not. He was in favor of what is called a base income for those so deprived in order to give them a chance to improve their lives against powerful forces.
IMHO, wealth was never meant to stay in the hands of a few indefinitely. It is to be used for projects that the Commons could not do by themselves, transformed by private and /or government entities. The inheritance tax was pushed by early leaders to prevent the consolidation of generational wealth by various families, who in the days before the Constitution was written, were forming an aristocracy.
Sorry, went offtopic.
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