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|  Message 3256  |
|  Steve Wolf to Lee Lofaso  |
|  Democracy Explained to Kids  |
|  21 Sep 13 13:32:13  |
 
LL> Let's see how well those who are presently on disability (SSDI)
LL> manage to survive when their checks are cut by 20 percent in 2016.
LL> Let's see how those on disability manage to survive when conservative
LL> Republicans undo at least some of Ronald Reagan's 1984 reform that
LL> expanded the kinds of disabilities covered.
LL> Do you think the Congress will do anything to save the SSDI trust
LL> program? By doing nothing, the cuts take effect automatically.
LL> What will happen is Republican lawmakers will say something along
LL> the lines of "Let's compromise" to the Democrats, and then refuse
LL> to go along with anything the Democrats propose. To obstruct, by
LL> any means necessary, resulting in getting exactly what they want,
LL> while blaming Obama at the same time.
LL> After gutting the SSDI program, Republican lawmakers will move on
LL> to gutting the Social Security program for retirees age 65 and over.
LL> Won't that be grand?
LL> Let's defund Obamacare, and gut Social Security. Leave everybody
LL> broke and without access to quality medical care. No more social
LL> security or medicare for anybody. But let's keep SSI and medicaid,
LL> as funding for those programs come out of general tax revenues
LL> rather than dedicated trust funds financed mainly by payroll taxes.
LL> Imagine that. Folks who never worked a day in their life are better
LL> off than folks who worked their butts off their entire lives.
LL> What we thought were entitlements are now fast becoming just a pipe
LL> dream. Maybe you think working until you drop is the thing to do.
LL> After all, there are lots of folks who are in their 80s working as
LL> greeters at WalMart. But it seems to me that most folks would prefer
LL> having a bit of free time after having worked for sixty or seventy
LL> fucking years.
This is the best message I've read all day. Outstanding!
HusTler
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