anyone remember Scarlet Woman's great thread on the threat to Social Security

[G_j]

many months ago? It was a very popular thread at the time.

I've been searching and searching, but can't find it. :shrug:

[JuniperLea]

1. Did she not save it as a journal?

Seems a lot of work went into it... it should have been saved.

[Segami]

2. Would this be the thread?

Social Security - PAY IT BACK!


We need to mobilize NOW. We need to arouse every working person we can reach with a strong and simple message. A message that says we will NOT tolerate the government telling us that our benefits must be sacrificed because they were stolen fair and square.

We can't afford to wait on the Catfood Commission's recommendations - we already know that they're salivating to screw us. We know this by the very fact that Social Security is even being considered in the first place as part of the deficit "problem".

The deficit was created by years of absurd tax cuts for the wealthy and the investor class, endless war, and bailouts for Wall Street. These all created massive shortfalls in the general fund, which were masked by an orgy of borrowing, including "borrowing" from the Social Security Trust Fund.

Now they want to weasel out of paying it back. They want all of us workers to take a cut so that they can continue to prop up tax cuts and war and Wall Street instead of honoring their debt to Social Security.

We absolutely must not allow this! We absolutely MUST tell them: Social Security - PAY IT BACK!

Make bumper stickers, pass out leaflets, staple posters on lampposts. Talk to people, stir them up. This is war. If we're not going to fight this, then we may as well just roll over and say "baaaa" -- because we will have then proved ourselves to be the dumb sheep that the Owner Class already assumes us to be.


sw


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9029245&mesg_id=9029245



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[G_j]

3. yes, that is it!

excellent little thread,

SW was far ahead of the curve on that, I wish more of us were...