The Five Worst Things Republicans Have Promised To Do To Americans

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The Five Worst Things Republicans Have Promised To Do To Americans

by Terrance Heath at the Campaign For American's Future

http://ourfuture.org/20141010/the-five-worst-things-republicans-have-promised-to-do-to-americans

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Cut Social Security

Former House Majority Leader and Wall Street’s newest lackey Eric Cantor summed up the GOP agenda on Social Security during an NPR interview in 2011:

I mean, just from the very notion that it said that 50 percent of beneficiaries under the Social Security program use those monies as their sole source of income. So we’ve got to protect today’s seniors. But for the rest of us? For – you know, listen. We’re going to have to come to grips with the fact that these programs cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be.

Republicans threatened to drive the U.S. economy over the “financial cliff” unless their demands for cuts to Social Security benefits were met. Republican majorities in the House and Senate will take America to the brink again — maybe further.



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