Is S&P Running Interference for the Right to Help Crush Social Security and Medicare?

[Democrats_win]

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/568

An 'Oh Please!' Moment: Is S&P Running Interference for the Right to Help Crush Social Security and Medicare?
Dave Lindorff

snips:
As Prof. Galbraith notes, the US can continue to print money to repay its debts, because they are denominated in the same currency.

...what S&P is talking about--a risk of default on current US debt--is simply absurd, and does raise questions about behind-the-scenes pressure from some nefarious actors on the right anxious to do away with Medicare and Social Security before today’s Baby Boomer population becomes the biggest retirement and Medicare-entitled voting bloc--both numerically and proportionally --in the nation’s history.

[Cassandra]

1. Yes.

They've already whored themselves out to the banks, what's one more trick?

[liberal N proud]

2. The timing was too convenient to be anything but

[blm]

3. yes....they want to convince people that stock market gambling is a more secure alternative than SS

But we all know how that plays out.....Wall Street barons getting richer while the working class dies off sooner and poorer.

[CelticThunder]

4. No doubt about it.