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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Warren Blasts GOP Social Security Scheme: "It’s ridiculous – but not surprising" [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)that link you provided. They state half truths. Whenever there is high unemployment, naturally there is less going into the SS fund. However, considering the economic disaster created by Third Way/neo Liberal policies leading to the Crash, SS continued to show a surplus.
Do YOU know how that happened? You made the claims that SS was in huge trouble and 'won't be there in 20 years' repeating a decades long Heritage Foundation/Third Way lie since we know it IS still here, and fully capable of meeting 100% of its obligations, WITH A SURPLUS.
Did you really read the link you provided from the Third Way site? It made MY point, they want to privatize SS and cut benefits for the elderly. Do you know they have NO RIGHT to touch that fund? It is NOT part of the Federal Budget, it is the PEOPLE'S fund.
The very fact they THINK they have any right at all to touch it shows how either ignorant they are of the issues, or simply so arrogant they believe they have a right to do so.
No Democrat would read that and not see why these people should be kept far away from any policy making in the Dem Partyl.
I am not going to write another OP just to explain what most Dems already know.
It would be a waste of time. Because if you trust A Wall St Think Tank and their deceptive writings more than a good Democrat like Elizabeth Warren, no one is going to change your mind. Which is fine, enough people have now identified the problem within this party that changes ARE happening which is why the Third Way are lashing out incoherently at this point, against Democrats. And exposing who they really are.