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Related: About this forumSocial Security... Lets lay it to rest once and for all...
Thank you St. Ronnie.
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Social Security... Lets lay it to rest once and for all... (Original Post)
Ed Suspicious
Dec 2012
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Waltons_Mtn
(345 posts)1. Amen!!
That was the video I thought of first when I saw the posts about cuts in Social Security.
sky imager
(36 posts)2. Too bad this video can't be played inside the crying boners head over and over and over and over
AnnaLee
(1,041 posts)3. Speech made by Reagan in 1984
So it also puts to rest all of those talking point based on LBJ and the "unified" budget.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)4. The Repukes count it as a budget item because
It was the Repukes that stole 2.7 trillion from the fund and have not paid one dime back...Thats the tax cuts for the rich..Bernie Sanders has explained this theft many times.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)5. I hope Sen Sanders does a TALKING Filibuster with this
If RePukes try to make ANY cuts in SS; and uses other similar quotes by other
Republicans who are on record in support of SS.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)6. Kick for the 3rd Way!
To think I couldn't stand the right wing, this asshole, and the privileged class back then...
Man have we come a long way! (as in down the road to hopelessness)