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In reply to the discussion: Let's try this again: No, Social Security is NOT insolvent. [View all]girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)27. What you've written is outside of my point.
Why was the deficit a subject of contention to begin with? Why did the President assemble a commission tasked with deficit reduction in the midst of a financial crisis, when the best economists on the planet told him he should be looking to expand the deficit, not reduce it? Why was the commission advised to put Social Security on the table, when Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit? Why was a well known enemy of Social Security who has made it his life's mission to publicly attack the program appointed chair of the commission?
No one has argued that Obama and the Democrats are intent on destroying Social Security. The neoliberals will be content enough to weaken it in the name of fiscal prudence.
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It would have been helpful if the President hadn't idiotically made deficit hysteria..
girl gone mad
Dec 2011
#1
Who would trust the administration to protect Social Security at this point?
girl gone mad
Dec 2011
#20
No one has argued that? There have been DOZENS of assertions of that just on DU.
TheWraith
Dec 2011
#36
Thank you. It really irked me that every Republican presidential candidate said "we all know ...
Scuba
Dec 2011
#4
you are correct. Plus, where some of this meme came from was when FICA revenues fell short of
wiggs
Dec 2011
#6
Well, THAT should stop Republican demagoguery and fear-mongering on the subject
gratuitous
Dec 2011
#14
Our reserve currency status is not very important in the scheme of things.
girl gone mad
Dec 2011
#22
EXACTLY!!! It pure GOP bull shit JUST like the GOP under the Bush administration put the USPS
Justice wanted
Dec 2011
#23
At some point government income is going to have to exceed government expenditures..
Fumesucker
Dec 2011
#28
Investing the social security trust fund in government securities was a stupid move
Taitertots
Dec 2011
#29
Your plan has to assume that income taxes on the rich could have been raised instead
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2011
#31
The money was taken from the workers to support huge tax decreases on the wealthy
Taitertots
Dec 2011
#39