Isn't Social Security a Republican program? (Reply #5)

In the discussion thread: Democrats back $15 minimum wage, but stalemate on Social Security [View all]

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Sat Jul 9, 2016, 09:15 AM

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5. Isn't Social Security a Republican program?

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70 replies	Author	Time	Post
Democrats back $15 minimum wage, but stalemate on Social Security [View all]	DonViejo	Jul 2016	OP
"the current minimum wage is a starvation wage " As opposed to Social Security. n/t	jtuck004	Jul 2016	#1
This Social Security -only income person says Amen to that. nt	silvershadow	Jul 2016	#49
"The typical American couple has only $5,000 saved for retirement."	RKP5637	Jul 2016	#2
Everyone has ideas	bucolic_frolic	Jul 2016	#3
Considering how crooked our	sulphurdunn	Jul 2016	#8
Yes	Freddie	Jul 2016	#33
That is partially true, St. Ronnie started taxing at 50% Bill Clinton raised it	doc03	Jul 2016	#58
Remove the wage cap	dynamo99	Jul 2016	#35
This is IMO the best option	trc	Jul 2016	#40
Those who receive "dividends" or stock in lieu of pay won't pay anything	cpamomfromtexas	Jul 2016	#44
That would help immensely	Yupster	Jul 2016	#45
Right on.	Cass	Jul 2016	#64
SSI is $740 a month.	happyslug	Jul 2016	#37
"other income"	bucolic_frolic	Jul 2016	#46
For SSI all is income.	happyslug	Jul 2016	#51
Social Security disagrees with you.	former9thward	Jul 2016	#47
"After midnight, during a session that began nearly two hours after it was scheduled, two amendments	merrily	Jul 2016	#4
Puzzling? Not to progressives	4dsc	Jul 2016	#10
Hillary Rodham Clinton (on google) on Medicare and Social Security	merrily	Jul 2016	#13
Somehow it doesn't puzzle me at all.	pangaia	Jul 2016	#27
Me either.	Silver_Witch	Jul 2016	#52
"...both amendments failed by about the margin that Clinton enjoyed over Sanders..."	George II	Jul 2016	#20
You know I didn't write the article, right?	merrily	Jul 2016	#63
It was a pretty long article, but for some reason you chose to isolate that one short passage.	George II	Jul 2016	#65
Some reason? That passage describes the vote cited in the title of the article.	merrily	Jul 2016	#66
Actually, it really doesn't. The title of the article mentions $15 miminum wage and "stalemate"....	George II	Jul 2016	#67
Actually, it does. Also, it's still Sunday morning where I am and I usually enjoy my Sundays, but	merrily	Jul 2016	#68
Isn't Social Security a Republican program?	Octafish	Jul 2016	#5
If we don't expand Social Security we will just spend more on the disability and SSI part anyway	hollowdweller	Jul 2016	#6
this	mopinko	Jul 2016	#30
Yes -- and also we will ramp up fear if we don't expand Social Security. Great points you made!	Akamai	Jul 2016	#38
Republicans will have fun with this one	Arizona Roadrunner	Jul 2016	#7
An answer to that question	sulphurdunn	Jul 2016	#11
The way DU is now, you can have a post scrubbed for just quoting the words of	NorthCarolina	Jul 2016	#39
But as I was told here somewhere, it's just a piece of paper.	pangaia	Jul 2016	#28
Eliminate the cap on social security tax - problem solved	groundloop	Jul 2016	#9
To do that would require	sulphurdunn	Jul 2016	#12
That is the thing that needs to be done first, before other things can be addressed.	still_one	Jul 2016	#14
Apparently, scrapping the cap is what was rejected	suffragette	Jul 2016	#32
That is the direct solution to the Social Security short fall. Of course money should have never	still_one	Jul 2016	#41
Completely agree with you on scrapping the cap and that SS funds should not be used	suffragette	Jul 2016	#42
Sure it should.	still_one	Jul 2016	#43
Wouldn't that increase employer costs?	seabeckind	Jul 2016	#16
Those same employers enjoying record profits while stagnating wages?	KeepItReal	Jul 2016	#23
Yep. They didn't get record profits by increasing their labor costs. n/t	seabeckind	Jul 2016	#24
Walmart can go to $15/hour simply by cutting the size of its stock buyback.	KeepItReal	Jul 2016	#26
So then no 'cap' on the guaranteed ss check everyone(who paid in) including billionares get?	Sunlei	Jul 2016	#34
This is so sad... This is why I was a Bernie Sanders fan..oh well, we must carry on. I will	secondwind	Jul 2016	#15
Why do they not want to expand social security?	RoccoR5955	Jul 2016	#17
deficit hawkery is still the order of the day. . .n/t	annabanana	Jul 2016	#19
So is expanding military spending.	RoccoR5955	Jul 2016	#50
Increase in minimum wage helps fund social security also	lostnfound	Jul 2016	#18
Nina Turner is a smart women… Good work...	midnight	Jul 2016	#21
Great, now 70-year-olds who need to work can get paid better.	L. Coyote	Jul 2016	#22
Scrap the cap - No says HRC supporters	daa	Jul 2016	#25
Stalemate? Democrats?!!!????	ananda	Jul 2016	#29
As someone who survives only on SS disability	arithia	Jul 2016	#31
I'm a payroll admin	Freddie	Jul 2016	#36
"I would feel terribly sorry for them"	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#53
Forgot the sarcasm thingy!	Freddie	Jul 2016	#54
Sorry	awoke_in_2003	Jul 2016	#55
I am blown away how the Democrats shaping the platform are making it such a conservative one.	avaistheone1	Jul 2016	#48
I am surprised they gave in on $15 and not SS.	Ash_F	Jul 2016	#56
sold their souls to wall street.	pansypoo53219	Jul 2016	#57
$15 per hour minimum wage may be meaningless if TPP passes	Arizona Roadrunner	Jul 2016	#59
To be honest I would have preferred a platform that would take the setting of the minimum wage	cstanleytech	Jul 2016	#60
"The platform as it existed promised that Democrats would "expand" Social Security"	Tactical Peek	Jul 2016	#61
Stalemating on Social Security.	chapdrum	Jul 2016	#62
And the TPP?	forest444	Jul 2016	#69
Those who oppose expanding social security are not really democrats	Doctor_J	Jul 2016	#70

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