Instead of "guns", let's call them "shit multipliers"

Drunk and angry? Add a gun and it gets many times worse.

Sometimes forget to put things back in their place? Leave a gun around with kids and it gets many times worse.

Feeling depressed and at your wits' end? Add a gun and it gets many times worse.

That's why fewer guns = fewer gun deaths.

The real world: armed guards in school = bad idea

We actually had an armed guard in my junior high school; it was a reasonably-tough school in New York City in the 1970s. Don't remember if it was a cop or some other type of guard.

A bad kid somehow got hold of the guard's gun. Amusing standoff ended with nobody hurt or killed. My parents moved us out to the suburbs shortly thereafter.

@#$% happens. Guns are an instant @#$% multiplier.

Perhaps we should keep guns of any sort out of schools.

Two-thirds of Americans are against touching Social Security

to avoid the fiscal cliff. Or for any other reason. They are specifically against the chained CPI, as well as all of the other cute schemes to cut it.

So our President offered something Americans absolutely hate, when he didn't need to, because of some mad chess skillz? Do I have that right? That seems to be what a lot of folks are claiming.

This political stuff sure is fancy.

Are you sick of getting hosed at every turn?

I am. I've really had it.

You?

"We've got more work to do."

Think *this* sucks? It's only *Part 1* of the Social Security cuts

The chained-CPIing of the 99% is just a "technical tweak" (or whatever nonsense they're calling it) as part of the deficit negotiations.

It's very likely that a second attack on Social Security will take place later on, to "strengthen it for our children": after all, it will go bankrupt in 25 years or so (which is unmitigated bullshit, based on cooked numbers from Timmy Geithner et al - ask me if you want details). So we have to "save" it! There's already been broad agreement that this should be a negotiation separate from the deficit discussions.

In all, the President's Simpson-Bowles Commission called for a 22% cut in the average Social Security recipients benefits. I expect that the assault won't stop until the wealthiest have that 22% in their own bank accounts.

The biggest bank heist of all time.

That's all I got. Let the Manny-abuse begin!

And sign the effing petition! Email four others and ask them to sign it too, right now!

Looks like Obama's on the cusp of fulfilling his dream

of cutting Social Security benefits.

10% cuts for 85-year-olds: very impressive!

The wealthy can start sleeping better again, now that they know the Trust fund is starting to funnel into their coffers.

Don't think this is a good idea? Then sign the $&@#ing petition:

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: not cut Social Security and/or Medicare to simply keep taxes low on the wealthiest Americans

Ask your friends and family to sign too. One day, if they're not eating cat food, they'll thank you.

Sign the petition: no 10% Social Security cut for 85-year-olds!!!

The deal being discussed in the media will cut Social Security more and more as recipients age - about 10% by the time a person reaches 85. Savage!

And Social Security has zero to do with the deficit - it's forbidden by law from causing a deficit. Obama has said that himself. So why is it part of a deficit deal? Because it allows taxes to stay low on the wealthiest Americans.

ProSense and I put up a White House petition yesterday - we need about 100 more signatures before it becomes publicly-searchable on the White House site.

Will you please help?

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: not cut Social Security and/or Medicare to simply keep taxes low on the wealthiest Americans

This is very, very exciting. You did it!

If we just cut a little more from the old, sick, and poor, and/or give more stuff to the wealthy, the Republicans will shake our hands.

This is history being made. You can tell future generations that you were part of this.

"Grandpa, what were Social Security and Medicare?"
"Well, back in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this one..."

Won't you help make this happen, by not signing this:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/not-cut-social-security-andor-medicare-simply-keep-taxes-low-wealthiest-americans/wN1GL0PC

Can you imagine the deal we'd propose if we'd *lost* the election?

Wow!