mountain man primitive wants to get up on the roof and scream

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

The mountain man primitive, who like all men nightly pitches his tent one day's march nearer the mausoleum:

ThomWV  (1000+ posts)        Sat Sep-10-11 07:53 PM
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You just want to get on the roof and scream when you see what has been done

Cut the ****ing contribution to Social Security! What one earth are they talking about, what kind of insanity is this? Do you realize what the Republicans have done, and done with language alone? They have misrepresented Social Security so often and for so long that enough working people now misunderstand what it is and how it works that they can push through measures that are sure to kill it. They didn't do this by forcing anything down anyone's throat (why do they always use "shove it down your throat") they did it by mischaracterizing Social Security.

Consider how it looks to any 30-year-old. For as long as they've been working Republicans have been hammering Social Security. They have call it an entitlement program for so long that even elected Democrats, who dam sure better know better, go along with them in describing it one.

Social Security is not an entitlement program, its an Earned Benefit. You worked, you paid in, you earned every dime of benefit you might receive.

But Republican's have not only managed to change the picture of Social Security people have in their mind, they have actually turned Social Security into an entitlement program. And how have they done this, you might reasonably ask. They did it by sending every dollar Social Security took in that was in excess of its immediate needs and supplemented the General Fund with it. Then, by way of the continuing 'budget crisis' they have created and perpetuated Social Security is forced to come back to the General Fund for its monthly needs. There you have it, instant entitlement program, fully tied to the budget where no such link previously existed.

Now if you're a young person working away at a job what are you to think? You've been told all your working life that the money you are paying in is robbery because you will never draw a dime of it back. This is a lie of course, but after ten years or so of hearing it you become brainwashed. They are taking out the money anyway and you don't think you're going to get anything back, so when someone puts a reduction in how much comes out on the table you support it for all you're worth. Of course if less gets paid in then the system is weakened farther and one more nail is driven into its coffin. And of course the Republicans know this too - once that withholding tax was "temporarily" cut there is not one snowball's chance in hell it will ever be raised back up again. You think the Bush Tax Cuts for the rich are proving hard to do away with?

So starting with a lie and a distortion of language the Republicans finally got Social Security where they want it. Its in a downward spiral that can only be stopped by increasing revenue, something they are well versed in blocking.

And if that doesn't make you want to go up on the roof and scream then what does? And by the way, how in hell could any Democrat go along with this? What on earth can justify jeopardizing the only social safety net a huge portion of the population has or ever will have? What?

In case one doesn't know, the mountain man primitve's rather touchy about social security.

[TVDOC]

Err....as I recall it was the half-caste, jug-eared "Republican" residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. that is the origin of this particular program.....correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this one of the topics of "the greatest speech ever" delivered recently......

doc

[BEG]

Err....as I recall it was the half-caste, jug-eared "Republican" residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. that is the origin of this particular program.....correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this one of the topics of "the greatest speech ever" delivered recently......

doc

Yeah but Repukes made him do it.

[I_B_Perky]

I hope he does... and then falls off. 

[miskie]

Err....as I recall it was the half-caste, jug-eared "Republican" residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. that is the origin of this particular program.....correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this one of the topics of "the greatest speech ever" delivered recently......

doc

What this primitive is saying is the stupid rethugs have once again outsmarted the smartest administration in history.