Subj : Democracy Explained to Kids
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Steve Wolf
Date : Sat Sep 21 2013 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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