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In reply to the discussion: Once again, Obama offers to cut Social Security [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)and they ARE in the future. Right now, SS is the only solvent fiscal program in this country and it belongs to the people who paid into it. They did borrow from it to pay for their illegal wars and to bail out their buddies on Wall St. Well too bad, when we borrow money, we are expected to pay it back. Why on earth do we treat these corrupt, greedy people differently than we treat ordinary working class people?
Aside from raising the cap, as Manny said, raise taxes on the non-tax paying wealthy and END the futile, illegal and inhumane wars they are all profiting from. We could pay SS benefits with increases every year for the next several decades and beyond if we took just those few steps.
If Democrats go along with this CPI/cuts to SS, they will risk losing their most loyal supporters. SS is still the Third Rail of politics, and whoever is advising this President otherwise, should be fired. Not that he doesn't know better, he should as a Democrat absolutely refuse to even consider this Republican attack on the elderly, the disabled and orphaned children. I absolutely hope he does or he will be endangering his own party.