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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill the lame duck congress take a shot at Social Security and Medicare
Those two programs have been targets #1 and #2 since their inceptions. It seems pretty plain that this may be their final shot at them?
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Will the lame duck congress take a shot at Social Security and Medicare (Original Post)
rurallib
Nov 2018
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marylandblue
(12,344 posts)1. No they won't, Democrats will filibuster, then run on it in 2020
rurallib
(62,451 posts)3. thanx - I so hope you are correct.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)2. Nothing, literally nothing would suprise me now.
safeinOhio
(32,727 posts)4. Suicide is painless
and it brings on many changes.....
50% of the base depends on them.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)5. but they will mollify that part of the base while totally effing over
their kids.
I am sure that all the think tanks have put plenty of time into creating a scenario that will pacify the base while screwing the younger generation.