Beware of cuts to Social Security, Medicare

<div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5dYLMj9ijPs" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />Another attack on working- and middle-class Americans is coming, it's coming soon and it's coming from Congress. <br /><br />More talks will take place 12 weeks from now, and they'll likely end in an agreement to cut Social Security, the most effective program ever to keep seniors out of poverty. The cuts will be swaddled in jargon -- "chained CPI" -- but don't be fooled. It's a cut. <br /><br />And they'll likely cut Medicare, too, the most popular and cost-effective health insurance program in the country.<br /><br />As Richard Eskow put it in a recent <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/entitlement-cuts_b_4133753.html" rel="nofollow">Huffington Post</a>: <blockquote/>In twelve weeks or so our new system of government-by-crisis will resume its regularly scheduled programming: more threats, more confrontations, and even more extreme rhetoric. </blockquote>There are only a few ways this could play out, and most of them involve cuts to Medicare and Social Security. The ones which don't probably involve either A) catastrophic gridlock or B) a mobilized citizenry.</blockquote>The reason you should be concerned is that Democrats as well as Republicans are starting to talk like the <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/01/fix-debt-is-full-of-crap.html" rel="nofollow">Fix the Debt loonies</a>, greedy billionaires willing to destroy the middle class in order to get more tax cuts for themselves. Democrats who've indicated support for cuts to  include President Obama, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.<br /><br />Our allies at<a href="http://www.strengthensocialsecurity.org/action" rel="nofollow"> Social Security Works</a> have a petition (the video above is theirs too) you should sign if you don't want Congress to cut Social Security and Medicare. Click <a href="http://www.strengthensocialsecurity.org/action" rel="nofollow">here</a> to sign it.<br /><br /><br />

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Hammered: The con artists attacking your Social Security and Medicare

The greedy con artists trying to lower your <a href="http://www.strengthensocialsecurity.org/" rel="nofollow">Social Security</a> and Medicare so they can lower their own taxes are having a rough time of it lately. People are catching on to their grift.<br /><br />For example, the <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/01/fix-debt-is-full-of-crap.html" rel="nofollow">Fix the Debt</a> swindlers tried to hold a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> live chat yesterday. Fix the Debt is the billionaire-funded group that likes to lecture the rest of us on how to make do with less. While they, you know, make do with more.<br /><br />The Fix the Debt Twitter live chat didn't go so well, according to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fix-the-debt-trolled-on-twitter-2013-10" rel="nofollow">Business Insider</a>. "'Fix the Debt' just felt Twitter's sweet, trollish wrath," reported BI's Steven Perlberg. Here are some choice tweets:<br /><b><br /></b>David Dayen:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@ddayen</b> Do you believe increased tax receipts from faster economic growth would reduce the deficit? Or do you not have a calculator? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>Kyle McGuiness<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@Emcee_Gee</b> Which is preferable: Arduous entitlement reform, or just beating up grandparents and stealing their SS checks every month? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>Brett Banditelli<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@banditelli </b>Will you be willing to cut Ed Rendell's consulting benefits as much as #ChainedCPI cuts seniors benefits? #fixthedebtqa cc: @fixthedebt</blockquote>Sam Seder<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@SamSeder</b> Favorite Cat Food for a quick nosh? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>Then the conversation turned to the utter failure of the twitter chat:<br /><br />Kurt Lynch<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>@KurtLynch12</b> Is your PR guy regretting the making of this hashtag yet? #fixthedebtqa</blockquote>If that was bad, the <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/who-should-young-people-throw-under-the-bus-granny-or-billionaire-hedgie-stan-druckenmiller.html" rel="nofollow">naked capitalism</a> blog did a priceless takedown of another hustler who wants to throw granny under the bus: billionaire hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller.<br /><br />Druckenmiller, the naked capitalist explains, is a financial speculator who bears a lot of the guilt for the 2008 collapse that is making life so miserable for young people these days (i.e., disastrously high unemployment). Now he's fomenting generational warfare with much the same message the Fix the Debt hustlers are promoting: <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">He’s going to college campuses and telling students that things suck (which they know full well) and they need to go after Boomers who are gonna get too much in entitlements if things don’t change.... </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">...Druckemniller has not only been one of two or three biggest Republican donors for the better part of two decades, he’s been firmly aligned with the aggressive “shrink government/cut taxes” effort, back to being a strong ally of Newt Gingrich. For Druckemmiller to point at Boomers and act as if he’s part of the solution, as opposed to one of the long-standing proponents of tax cuts, which among other things were one of the big causes in the rise in government debt levels under George Bush, is remarkably disingenuous.</blockquote>And she concludes:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">...he was a major sponsor of the very policies that have helped impoverish American youth. Perhaps Druckenmiller is making such an aggressive and public disinformation tour because he knows that if young people were to turn on the old, he’d be one of the most deserving targets for their vengeance. </blockquote>If only they'd just crawl back to their mansions...

fix the debt social security Hammered: The con artists attacking your Social Security and Medicare

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