Obama proposes Social Security cuts

World Socialist Web Site ^ | 12/20/12 | Patrick Martin

[Libloather]

Obama proposes Social Security cuts
Patrick Martin
20 December 2012

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The White House decision to propose cuts in future Social Security benefits is of enormous political significance. Social Security has long been characterized as the “third rail” of American politics—touch it and you die. Obama and Boehner are seeking to break this taboo and create a new political framework for imposing brutal austerity measures on working people.

Whatever the immediate outcome of the talks in Washington, whether or not a deal is reached before December 31, the overall direction is clear: entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are to be gutted. The only significant area of federal spending will be the military-police agencies required to defend the interests of the financial aristocracy—overseas against foreign rivals and revolutions, at home against the American working class.

[4Liberty]

It WILL be cut for

1) those who haven’t suffered ‘historical disadvantage’

2) those who vote Republican

[OldPossum]

I liked your post (#21). Your posts are often thoughtful. In this case, you pointed out what a lot of people overlook, i.e., life often isn’t fair and many who get the shaft are wholly undeserving of it.

[CatOwner]

"But what will you do if they simply decline to return it? They're thinking you will do nothing. They're quite confident of it. Virtually nobody ever does anything but take it on the chin."

Exactly. Lots of bigger talkers taking it in the @ss and doing nothing about it.