Social security cuts

Cutting social security and Medicare is defaulting against you.

author: JB

Cutting social security and Medicare is defaulting against you.

Cutting social security and Medicare is defaulting against you.

As the congress and the executive battle over the budget it is clear from the rhetoric that default is on the table. It's a question of how much and who the US should default.

The media is full of words like entitlements instead of trust when the obligations of social security and Medicare are discussed. So the media also takes a side in the propaganda.

Worse than this ruckus is the fact that there is not a paradigm shift in the economy that will fix the economy.
US spending have created jobs in the defense-prison-security sector; but not in health, education, and small green businesses.

Imagine if the homeowner were bailed out instead of the banks. Imagine a tariff on finished good. Imagine taxing the ober-rich

As much computer security...

as you need should be a legal right.  No government should have the right to bust someone or harass someone online based on how many firewall programs they run.  Anyway, the government stealing or planting illegal evidence is null and void.  It goes against the 4th amendment.

Social Security under attack

open letter to labor leader Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
--Maimonides

Dar Mr. Stern,

I see that you have been appointed to the Obama Administration's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Congratulations are in order. However, I am very afraid of this Commission.

I am afraid because Alan Simpson, to co-Chair of the Commission, has already spewed his hatred of the working class, and of its great triumph, Social Security. And with all due respect, Mr. Stern, your pronouncements on the subject are less than encouraging.

I beg you to remember your organizing days. I beg you to bite the hand that evidently proffers power and stability to you, as you visit the White House so many times. Bite that hand. Stand up for Social Security. Use the bully pulpit of the Commission to denounce those who would withdraw our society's just and moral support of the poor.

Expose Simpson and his ilk for the corporate lapdogs that they are. Propose that Social Security be expanded, and the retirement age lowered. Demand that the wealthy and super-wealthy pay their share.

Do this, and earn real glory. Do this, the right thing. Stand up for the working class, the class that makes society possible.

Fight.