Reply #17: bvar22's completely transparent "Old Democratic Party" way of saving Social Security:

[bvar22]

1)Raise or Remove the Cap.
There are many arguments being offered in opposition to this.
None of these arguments are valid.
Raising the Cap will NOT hurt the Working Class. The majority of Americans in the Working Class are already well below the cap.
Those Americans who are in the Upper Middle Class, and the RICH will simply have to pay a fairer share.

2)Expand the Working Class by Liberalizing and Facilitating Immigration
If the problem is not enough workers to support the retiring "Boomers",
the answer is NOT cutting benefits.
The answer is More WORKERS!
Open America's doors to people who want to WORK for a living, and focus our national effort at creating GOOD jobs with real BENEFITS that will attract the cream of workers from around the World.
I've driven across America, and it is a BIG place. America is no where near Filled Up. There is still plenty of space for WORKERS.
All we need is the jobs.

3) Index the tax on Capital Gains to the highest Income Tax rate paid by the Working Class.
Isn't this simply FAIR?
Why should a member of the Working Class, punching a clock, living by the sweat of his/her brow, pay more than double the taxes on his/her income than a member of the Ownership Class pays on money made from their Capital Gains which accrue while they sit by their swimming pool drinking Boat Drinks?

Use this money plus a 50% reduction in Military Spending (Peace Dividend) to fund a MASSIVE National Works/Jobs Program to employ the unemployed/underemployed AmericanWorkers and the influx of Immigrant Workers.

Do things like:
*Build a World Class National Rapid Transit System using ONLY American made components.
At least we would have something to show after spending the money...unlike financing useless WARS, building expensive weapons which are mostly useless, and bailing out Wall Street Billionaires.

*Re-establish the CCC
Re-build our State & National Parks to World's Best Standards.
Give the CCC members "Veteran's benefits" after 2 years

*Establish thousands of Environmentally Friendly de-Centralized Small Organic Farm Co-Ops.
Modern equivalent of 40 Acres and a Mule.

*(We are bounded ONLY by our lack of imagination here.)

4)Government Jobs are only a stop gap...End "Free Trade" and bring GOOD jobs back to America.
Folks, the proof is IN. Ross Perot was right.
"Free Trade" has been a disaster for LABOR and all Americans who Work for a Living.
The first step to a real National Recovery is to end these scam trade agreements, and start protecting and growing American Jobs.

There is no such thing as a "Free Market".
There is no Giant Invisible Hand that magically reaches down and "corrects" markets.
The Ownership Class made that shit up, and sold it to a gullible America.

I cringe every time I hear a so-called "Democrat" hype the fantasy of "Free Markets".

5)Break Up the Big Boxes and enact "Fair Competition" legislation that lets Mom & Pop and Family Farms compete with Big Corpo on a level playing field.
Radically De-Centralize and limit Corporate Power. Make THEM compete.
This would do more to create jobs than a government Jobs Program.
Reverse the WalMartization of America, and begin to restore LOCAL economies where money stays in local circulation sustaining local jobs instead of being immediately sucked out to Corporate HQ.

These are just a few things that an Old Style, Pro-Working Class, Pro-LABOR "Democratic Party" could do the "save" Social Security.
Unfortunately, none of these things are even open for discussion in today's "New Democrat" led Party.
They are going to "save" Social Security the "New Democrat" way.

God help the Working Class.


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone