GOP Wants To Grow National Debt, Slash Social Security

[NorthCarolina]

Sen. Bernie Sanders on his plans to filibuster the Tax Cut Compromise: "We are protecting the middle class by waging this fight and saying, 'You can't grow the national debt so that the Republicans can come back and slash benefits or move toward raising the retirement age or making other cuts in Social Security,'"

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"I can tell you with absolute certainty that a couple of months from now our Republican friends will have driven up the national debt by giving tax breaks to the very rich, and then they're going to come back and say, 'Oh my word! We have a growing national debt and a big deficit! We're going to have to cut back on Pell Grants, on education, on health care, on environmental protection -- all of which will impact the middle class!'" said Sanders.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/bernie-sanders-on-tax-cut_n_793405.html

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Sanders is right, and we all know it. This is an out and out attack on the middle class by the GOP, and Obama is enabling their efforts.

[doc03]

1. Starve the beast, that has been the plan since RR n/t

[NorthCarolina]

2. In a quite literal sense. nt

[valerief]

3. Watched part of "A Face in the Crowd" last night on TCM. Fabulous movie.

The oligarchs wanted to slash social security and other benes in that fifties movie, too.

It's the same old song, just a new chorus.

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