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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 07:44 PM
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AFL-CIO: Social Security Is Not A “Disgrace”, Doesn’t Need McCain’s Privatization

http://www.laborradio.org/node/8999

By Doug Cunningham

Senator John McCain calls Social Security a “disgrace”, but the AFL-CIO says it’s an American success story, it’s not broken and it’s NOT a disgrace. The labor federation says Social Security is the cornerstone of American retirement security and McCain wants to gamble it away with risky privatization and diversion schemes that will only weaken it. McCain, the AFL-CIO note, has used every opportunity to vote to replace Social Security with private accounts that will undermine the system. What millions of Americans who depend on Social Security need, the AFL-CIO says, is a president who will strengthen the system, protect it and bring it into long-range balance.



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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-16-08 08:11 PM
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1. As the late, great George Carlin said -
"They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want...And now they're coming for your social security money. They want your F*ing retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something, they'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later - because they own this f*ing place. It's a big club, and you aint in it..."

But McCain and his boys are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ4SSvVbhLw

We're in for a rough rough ride if McBrainfreeze is elected... Hang on!
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