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Showing Original Post only (View all)Dick Durbin voted to cut Social Security by 22%. Remember what Obama said? [View all]
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As a member of the President's Catfood Commission, Dick Durbin voted to recommend Messrs Simpson's and Bowles' proposal to reduce the average Social Security recipient's lifetime benefits by 22% over time.
It's fascinating that our President immediately rejected the commission's recommendations to cut the military as too extreme, but did not push back on the Social Security cuts. He said... nothing. 22% might be OK, it seems. Note that this was after he'd claimed publicly, on multiple occasions, that Social Security was not originally intended for retirees, which is a far-right lying point used to justify cuts.
At the time, a few people on DU said "hey, this is pretty screwed up". Those people got an enormous ration of shit, being accused of everything from being PUMAs to liars to being on Karl Rove's payroll. But they were right. I suppose that the specter of Democrats gutting the social safety net was so unbelievable that many didn't want to believe their own words and actions.
But here we are. And Durbin's back to his sick tricks again:
Durbin wants new fiscal commission. Wants to raise retirement age, cut COLA.
And as we know, the President, Pelosi, and others keep pushing hard to whittle down SS benefits through the chained CPI, the cut that they claim is not a cut. Bullshit!
Do people finally have a sense of how sick and brutal the bipartisan war against the 99% has become? They want those trillions in our Trust Fund, they want them now, and they don't care who starves, freezes, or perishes for lack of medical care. They just don't give a shit. But I hope that YOU do.
I know that I'm a goddamned broken record on this. I'm even sick of hearing myself talk about this stuff. But these are real lives in the balance, all so the Predator Class can have even more cash, and I will not gulp a glass of STFU on this issue.
We must stop this decisively. It is pure evil, and Democrats don't do pure evil.