http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9107552Oh my.
coti (655 posts) Thu Sep-09-10 11:33 PM
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Poll question: Rate the level of pissed-ness you will experience if Democrats cut Social Security:
Self-explanatory.
Poll result (80 votes)
Why, I'll be just fine with it! (4 votes, 5%)
I'll blink in disappointment a couple of times. (1 votes, 1%)
I'm going to be slightly miffed and write a strongly-worded LTTE, but I'll get over it. (0 votes, 0%)
I'm going to be quite angry and will hold it against the Democrats for a long time. (5 votes, 6%)
I'll feel an intense, seething ire that may result in me not calling myself a Democrat ever again. (55 votes, 69%)
I'll pretty much be screaming about it in public for a good year or so. (5 votes, 6%)
Two words: Goin' postal! (10 votes, 13%)
Well, franksolich has said it once (really, more times than that), and will say it again.
Cut off the social security "disability" gravy train, and there'd be money for the old folks.
Bluebear (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-09-10 11:34 PM
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1. Other: I will feel little if any surprise.
emilyg (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-09-10 11:53 PM
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4. I'm on the brink - this would be the final straw.
coti (655 posts) Fri Sep-10-10 12:15 AM
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6. Really, it would.
Been hanging on pretty hard, but if the Dems took the initiative to do this- just forget it. They're lost.
customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-09-10 11:56 PM
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5. I fully expect that it will happen and will not be disappointed in what I see to be a normal political reaction.
Neither Rethug nor Democrat wants to raise the taxes or cut the expenses needed to produce the surplus budget that will pay off the Social Security Trust Fund IOU's.
Zanzobar (38 posts) Fri Sep-10-10 12:19 AM
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7. It's not called the third rail for nothing.
It'll never happen. The fretting and worry over the fate of SS will be anticlimatic.
You'll be wondering how you could have been so foolish.
coti (655 posts) Fri Sep-10-10 12:22 AM
Response to Reply #7
8. Let's say something now and make sure it doesn't!
hyphenate (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 01:03 AM
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9. As someone on and trying to live on Disabilty, I can guarantee I won't have much of a reaction at all, as I will likely be either dead, on the street, or in a nursing home before too much time has passed. Trying to even make my way right now is hard enough--without the monthly amount I would get, I would be reduced to nothing.
gkhouston (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 01:08 AM
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10. Other: intense, seething ire that will result in not calling *them* Democrats ever again.
metapunditedgy (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 01:36 AM
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11. I'm starting to wonder what issues elected officials *do* consider sacred.
Do "pragmatists" by definition have no sacred issues?
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 05:50 AM
Response to Reply #11
15. The pragmatists have but one sacred issue..
Not pissing off their owners, nothing will be done that upsets those who write the big campaign donation checks.
Knowing this one fact you can pretty much predict how any given political issue is going to eventually turn out after the Kabuki Sturm und Drang is done.
Historic NY (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 01:51 AM
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12. Wait until the Republicans eliminate it completely.
Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 03:42 AM
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13. This should really be anyone's last straw.
No one with even a chemical trace of self-respect would ever vote Democratic again.
lillypaddle (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 05:34 AM
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14. polling hypotheticals now
sheesh. We don't have enough to worry about, let's make some shit up. proudly unrecc'd.
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-10-10 05:57 AM
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16. Why would anyone be upset at pragmatists for being pragmatic?
Cutting SS so that the money borrowed from the trust fund doesn't have to be repaid on the backs of the suffering mega rich is a totally pragmatic thing to do.
Those campaign donation checks aren't going to write themselves.
Too bad.
Somewhere, somehow, sometime, social security is going to be cut down to nearly nothing.
The primitives might as well face the fact.
It's the primitive's own fault, giving away money that wasn't theirs to give away.
