I have to ask (briefly): Why is Obama pushing so hard for Social Security reform now? The Democratic party is resisting him -- yes, resisting the Blessed One. So why not wait until after the midterms, when the Republicans will have greater numbers, and may in fact be in the majority?
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Why now?
Because his supporters are demanding it.
(His real supporters - the ones who spent a $billion to get him elected)
Even that explanation does not really work. They may want that, but Obama has only one shot at such a goal. Dubya's experience proved this. So why not take that shot at the best time?
That time is not now.
Do you really think Obama will have any political muscle left by 2011?
Maybe they figure it's now or never.
Obama is raiding the funding of Social Security, that's why. Obama used the taxes that normally go to fund Social Security to pay for the stimulus package income tax cut and for Cobra subsidy. Pelosi paid for the tax cuts and Cobra on the back of old people. Now Obama wants in his budget to make the tax cut permanent.
Once the funding of Social Security stops, the demise of the only safety net old people have will be history.
Maybe he feels the need to act hastily because the bamboozlement is rapidly wearing off. Not just the economy, but the DOJ stuff is just too much to swallow.
cat lady
How hard is he pushing it? He can backpeddle.
He may think this is the only time, when he still has a halo around him.
And I don't agree it can be done only once. It keeps coming back.
It's the Shock Doctrine: taking advantage of the economic crisis to quickly push unpopular legislation through like gentrification after Katrina.
What's the best time to grab during a smash and grab? Why isn't this a good time for him to steal SS? He could pretend he's "saving" it from the general meltdown.
It may be a bad time , but both politically and financially, when will there be a better time any time soon? ...
Do folks remember how W wanted us to put SS into Wall St? How much worse would it be right now if we had not pushed back hard on that one?? What if along with your 41k being down 60 %, your parents SS check was 60 % less this month?
Fucking pandimodium
I thank God that Obama is meeting SOME resistance from Dems. But unless the American public roars its disapproval, the Dems will, of course, wet thier pants and cave in .
It's this greedy double dipping that is thier road block. If Barry can't get his claws into SS, then I would say greed did them in again.
War profit greed, in part, stopped W and bailout greed will have finished Barry's SS grap, if we are so lucky as to fight it off this time.
W wanted war profits AND SS. Barry wants bailouts AND SS. It's a bridge too far greed wise.
Hopefully we can fight them off again. But the fight is NEVER finished. They just come back again later. They cannot leave that pile of money alone. Its thier "precious"
I agree with anonymous re the FICA being requisite to his stimulus farce, etc. Such funds are his only chance to fund all of his promises. As such, time is of the essence.
I also suspect that he, Axelrod, et al, somehow believe that the messianic worship of his hapless, clueless minions, along with their sheer numbers and willing activism, may perhaps be potent enough to scare certain Democrats into submission regarding the mid-terms. Certainly was true during the primaries.
So far what Obama has wanted to do, he has done. Whatever he has chosen to reverse himself on, has also been totally justifiable to said minions. Lies have become Obamaland pragmatism.
So why should SS be any different? Simply spin it to his adoring masses, have them castigate/vilify all Democratic/Liberal opposition into disposable obstructionists. Out to sabotage the Brilliant One's master-plan to save the world.
Bingo! Obama gets what he wants, and we realists, and true pragmatists, can just piss and moan, or better still just STFU.
By comparison we are not organized, and we do not matter. Our only function, and reason for existence, is to pay the bills.
Just Me said... ....Lies have become Obamaland pragmatism.
Nicely said. I believe one of the strongest reasons Obots refuse to wake up is because if they do ,they will have to admit they were wrong and were easily fooled.
That is almost impossible for these people....well anyone. They care about protecting the fiction of thier discerning intellect even more than they do Barry.... far more
In fact Barry's success with them is mixed up with thier deepest belief: That they are brilliant.
At this point IMO, when they defend Barry, it's that belief they are actully defending . Barry's handlers really knew how to manipulate the " creative " class.
on the other hand. the SSsystem is seriously flawed because it has been robbed for many (many) years.
It need to be seriously dealt with and has been a political hot potato for too long.
I hope you are not proposing that we ignore it..the problem that is.
LOCKBOX is the only answer but Bambi is itching - itching - itching to get his hands on it.
Yeah, what donn darko said, but omfg, most of all what annie said!
Those fucking morons in the creative class will never admit they are morons.
I live for the day I can spit at their feet and stare them down. When they have no place to hide. Like the Bush morons after Katrina.
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