Reply #16: Social Security is already taking its big hit via the

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The fact that no employee or employer contributions will be made in 2011. This will set the fund back by 120 Billion dollars, and that fact will be conjugated in such a way that all Americans will be instructed to see, again and again on the news, that Social Security is now a drain on the Social Security fund - all those pesky Baby Boomers retiring soon, and they continue to demand, demand demand.


This "drain," created at the same time the Ultra Rich were given their four percent extension of Bush tax cuts, will fire up the Social Security critics to point out that the SS system is broken.


ABC "News" has already encapsulated this argument, several times, for evening news viewers, and it is only January 25th.