Our friends at Social Security Works aren’t beating around the bush. They have a very direct, very stark message about the American social safety net. “President-elect Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan,” they wrote their members this week, “are getting their ducks in a row – preparing to destroy Medicare and Social Security in Trump’s first 100 days in office.
Will Trump let Sam Johnson and Paul Ryan gut Social Security?Collin County, north of Dallas, is the 6th most populous county in Texas and all of the 3rd congressional district, represented by crackpot Republican Sam Johnson, lies within its boundaries. The congressional district is just over 60% white, about 15% Latino, 13% Asian and 8% Black.
There is a high probability that Social Security benefits will be cut in 2017 or 2018, because there will not be enough Social Security money to pay full benefits. The payroll tax hike of 1983 generated $2.7 trillion in surplus Social Security revenue, but none of it ended up in the trust fund. In the words of Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), in a Senate Speech on March 16, 2011:
Most Americans must be getting accustomed to hearing lie after lie from the two presidential candidates. According to fact checkers, Clinton lies on average 28 percent of the time and Trump lies 80 percent of the time. This is a sad commentary on how low our political parties and candidates have sunken. But lies from government officials and agencies has become commonplace in our treasured American way of life.
AKA-- A Bitter WayOne of Chris Wallace's debate topics tonight was "Debt and Entitlements," which is how conservatives frame their arguments for cutting Social Security and Medicare. The moron who ran the VP debate last month also read a card someone gave her that implied that Social Security would "run out of mone," a falsify conservatives never tire of pushing on low-info/low-intelligence media folks like Elaine Quijano.
My article, “Let the Public Know the Truth About Social Security,” Dissident Voice, September 26, 2016, raised doubts in the minds of some readers. One reader wrote: “Unlike protests such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, no one is taking to the streets to protest this big theft. So, what will it take to well up enough anger to stage protests?”
Not surprisingly, Republicans are at it again. If they're not taking food out of kids' mouths, hurting working families or taking money from the elderly, they're just not happy. It is an example of the latter we'd like to talk about at DWT this evening. As you may know, it has taken a long time to get 100% of Democrats in the Senate behind increasing Social Security, instead of keeping it as is or cutting it.
During the past three decades, the American people have been kept in the dark about the true status of the Social Security program. Politicians from both political parties give out false and conflicting information on a regular basis, and nobody knows who to believe.
Many of us are watching the clock tick down to November 8, election day. But millions of American workers have their eyes set a few weeks further down the calendar to December 1 when a Department of Labor rule kicks in that will double the salary threshold-- from from $23,660 to $47,476-- at which workers get overtime pay for overtime work.
Sixty days. A year. Five years. A week. A day. An hour. Right now.
That’s the curse of addiction, those needles, inhalants, the entire barbarity of cheap booze shilled by the chosen ones, the money changers, all amortized and bundled debts in trans-capital, sold next to the playground, the trees cut down for billboards pronouncing sexual prowess and football hero-dom with the flick of the Mike’s Hard Cider or a fucking Bud.
