Divernan
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Wed Jul-13-11 06:40 AM
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101. Obama's sole purpose WAS to terrify all recipients. |
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Republican politicians know the way that SS is set up, that those checks will continue to go out. Obama didn't throw this threat out to GOP leadership in one of their all to brief meetings. Obama did this to panic the populace - everyone who receives such a check and all their families and friends, solely to generate panicked calls to Congress. That puts the burden on the Senators and Representatives (of both parties) to explain fiscal realities of SS (FICA moneys continue to come in - there is a surplus in SS funds, etc.)to all the many constituents who are at best alarmed and at worst completely terrified.
It was a vicious, cynical, cruelly manipulative thing to do to seniors and veterans and the disabled, as well as their families and friends. And whomever endorses or supports that action is equally callous.
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