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I guess it is necessary for

Peter — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:43:52 +0000

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I guess it is necessary for Liberal Dems to appear clueless about how the sausage is produced and the Kabuki maintained in DC. The Repugs start the dance with a flame-thrower attack that no one expects to succeed and then the Dems respond, after apocalyptic pronouncements to the Faithful, with the cooling waters of compromise, then they work together to shaft the rubes.

The final product will reflect the 'necessary reforms' goal of Obama's Catfood Commission and Pete Peterson will smile as Obama's Grand Betrayal becomes the new reality.

Thanks Ducky, I added it to

trkingmomoe — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:06:13 +0000

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Thanks Ducky, I added it to face book.

The La Times also mentioned that the new cases in SSDI have dropped.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/this-chart/social-security-disability-chart

One of the central arguments that liberals are deploying against the stated Republican intention to pursue Social Security changes this Congress is that the "crisis" that conservatives are seizing on has already passed.

One of the reasons is that disabled baby boomers are now able to transfer to SSI and receive a larger amount based on retirement credits.

Here Momo . . .

oldenGoldenDecoy — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 17:56:43 +0000

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Here Momo . . .

Add this to you information.

There's a chart in my post in the Warren thread at TPM here that may help spread the word.

~OGD~

Great link. Thanks. I just

trkingmomoe — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:34:05 +0000

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Great link. Thanks. I just posted it to my facebook.

Whether the facts will jolt the GOP out of its reverie will only be seen over time, as it works on the disability issue. Don't expect much.

The raw truth is this: The reserve, or trust fund, from which the disability program receives about 20% of its funding is expected to run dry in 2016. If nothing is done, disability payments, which currently average about $1,068 a month to 11 million disabled persons and their family members, will have to be cut by that same percentage. Colvin called that "a death sentence" for those beneficiaries.

This just backs up what I pointed out. This are people who are not well. The Republican Party is now a Fascist Party. They see these people as being unworthy and useless, so they must be discarded like garbage.

They are also lying.

"Don’t trust a federal trust fund," he said. "There are not dollars stashed away anywhere. There are no dollars in the disability trust fund and there are no dollars in the Social Security trust fund.... We spent the money."

As we've written before, this assertion is nothing but an attempt to cheat working Americans of the benefits they've paid for. The trust funds hold trillions of dollars of U.S. Treasury bonds bought and paid for by payroll taxes collected from American workers since 1983; these transfers have been certified, in writing, every year by U.S. treasury secretaries and other cabinet members, Republican and Democrat, and accepted by Congress. If the money's gone, they should all go to jail--but you won't hear that said by Enzi or his cronies.

Yes lets put them in jail and drug test them first.

Republicans don't understand

rmrd0000 — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:59:32 +0000

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Republicans don't understand Social Seurity Disability and don't care that they don't understand Social Security Disabilty.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-gop-shows-it-doesnt-und...

I am angry. I have watched

trkingmomoe — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:45:16 +0000

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I am angry. I have watched people lose their Meals on Wheels and then struggle to get their bi-monthly food basket. I wish all of you could have seen them yesterday manage to do this like I witnessed. Most of them only get about a $1000 a month if they are lucky. I even saw a person in a full halo frame. I could just see those a$$ hats in the think tanks making these plans and writing all the memos because they know this part of our society is too weak to organize and kick up a fuss. Then turn around a demand that the seniors take a cut to help out these poor souls.

The 1% don't need any more tax breaks. Remove the ceiling on the FICA tax. These people need better care. You would think we are living in a 3rd world country. Actually I do. I live in the Koch Colony of Florida.