NYT: The Neverending Fight to Save Social Security (new R plan to kill it)

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Protesters at a 2012 rally oppose cuts to Social Security benefits.Credit Joe Raedle/Getty Images


http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/the-neverending-fight-to-save-social-security/?_r=0

By TERESA TRITCH SEPTEMBER 1, 2015 1:23 PM

A trial balloon now being inflated by Republicans in Congress needs to be popped before it gets any bigger.

I’m talking about their latest plan for unwise and unnecessary cuts to Social Security.

Of course, they don’t put it that way. In their telling, they are protecting Americans from a meltdown of the retirement system.

The issue involves the way the Social Security disability fund interacts with the much larger and better known retirement fund.

FULL story at link.

[Faux pas]

1. ...

they make me wanna and they are a bunch of scurvy bastids.

[riversedge]

2. Who ever the Dem nominee is--I will

vote for them.

[angel823]

3. just raise the cap

asshats (meaning the republicans in congress, that is)

Angel in Texasperated