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In reply to the discussion: I Love Social Security [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)and while I was not really surprised that it was included in the budget, like you I was hoping that some of our more progressive Democrats would have been able to persuade him not to do it.
This step is absolutely a step towards the disastrous 'austerity' policies that have already destroyed many former sovereign European nations, and as you pointed out to me a while ago, countries like Argentina.
The question I still have is 'why'?? How does it benefit anyone, even the wealthy, to reduce the world to a place where there are only the obscenely wealthy and the poor? Money can't buy them security and history shows that whenever this was attempted in the past, there has always been a breaking point, NOT to the advantage of those most responsible for it.
Sorry about the 'democrats' in your state. I hope they will be primaried strongly when they come up for reelection. That is really the only way now to restore the integrity of the Democratic party that appears to be slipping away.
I'm going to bookmark that link as I often think about that G20 speech which should have prepared us for what just happened ...