Senate's No. 2 Democrat calls for cuts to social safety net

[John2]

100. Well,

I'm not going to disagree with that. I'd rather see a single payer system, but the political climate in Congress has been tough. You are looking at an environment where people are sent to Congress, that want to get rid of entitlements altogether. People put these persons in Congress without thinking. The Republicans over the decades, have moved the discussion to the right and attached it to the debt. I disagree with it. They have done a lot of race baiting with entitlements too. There needs to be education on the real problems of the deficit. That debate needs to move back towards the Military Industrial Complex, and tax Reform. So I agree with you, but this is the political environment we are in. I think Durbin is on our side but it takes the right climate to move the Debate.

Now that we have the Affordable Care Act, we need to create the Political climate to move it towards Universal Care. Opponents will fight back and call it Communisn, but views have to change.