The Hoax of Entitlement Reform with Robert Reich

[limpyhobbler]

[marew]

1. Reich tells it like it is!

Which is exactly what the GOTP doesn't want us to know!
In the first year of the recovery, 93 percent of all income gains went to the top 1 percent. In other words, the very rich had a bad 2009, but an incredible 2010. Their share of national income bounced back to 19.77 percent. So inequality is marching upward once again.
Yup, the GOTP says, let's blame the people at the bottom- many of whom spent 30 to 40 years paying into the system and whose meager investments, if any, were destroyed by Wall Street criminals.
Disgusting!

[indepat]

2. A corporatist government will willingly renege on benefits earned by social security and

Medicare beneficiaries before making any meaningful reductions in lavish MIC funding and lavish and corrupt corporate welfare.

[bvar22]

3. ^This^

..and sadly, way too many "Centrist" Democrats are happy with that plan.



[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]

[indepat]

4. Centrist Democrats help perpetuate a corporatist government instead of a government that

provides for the general welfare, thus assuring the perpetuation of welfare for corporations and affluent donors.

[midnight]

8. K&R "I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans." Paul Wellstone

[JDPriestly]

5. K&R

[ErikJ]

6. Plutocrats 2 prong strategy with this hoax.

Keep including the SS trust fund as part of the general fund so they can keep their top marginal taxes and corporate taxes historically low;

and create confusion and fear that SS is going to go broke so they can privatize it for the Wall Street bankster cronies.

[Faryn Balyncd]

7. kick

[blackspade]

9. Right on.

excellent commentary