If you're an elected dem who is open to cutting Social Security, or Medicare or S.N.A.P., Fuck you.

[puffy socks]

218. 70 Dems committed to expanding a couple years ago and it was Warren not Bernie

who initiated it.


“I won’t cut Social Security,” Clinton wrote in an initialed tweet that included a link to her campaign website’s Social Security page. “As always, I’ll defend it, & I’ll expand it. Enough false innuendos.”

Clinton previously had stated that she planned to increase benefits, particularly for vulnerable beneficiaries, but progressive groups worried she might be willing to strike a so-called grand bargain on fiscal policy that increased benefits for some poorer Americans as it cut middle-class benefits.

Those organizations praised Clinton’s Twitter comment as the kind of airtight commitment they were seeking.

“Today, Hillary Clinton clarified her position that she, like Bernie Sanders, will oppose all Social Security benefits cuts, including, of course, raising the retirement age which is an across the board benefit cut,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works. “Expanding, not cutting, Social Security is profoundly wise policy and what an overwhelming majority of Americans want.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-pledges-not-to-cut-social-security_us_56b630dfe4b04f9b57d9d482