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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:14 PM Jan 2019

Politicians need to look at expanding Social Security, not defunding it...

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Politicians need to look at expanding Social Security, not defunding it... (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2019 OP

This title implies Democrats are looking to defund SS. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #1

Implying All politicians, not just democrats or republicans... pbmus Jan 2019 #2

Good change...However I dont know which Dems are seeking to defund it at all??? Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #4

The usual approach is to chip away, not "defund." PETRUS Jan 2019 #6

I didn't see it that way. Control-Z Jan 2019 #3

The 1% do not need Social Security. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,125 posts)

1. This title implies Democrats are looking to defund SS.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:16 PM

Jan 2019

May not at all what you intend but that is what i see.

pbmus

(12,422 posts)

2. Implying All politicians, not just democrats or republicans...

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:19 PM

Jan 2019

Eliot Rosewater

(31,125 posts)

4. Good change...However I dont know which Dems are seeking to defund it at all???

Reply to pbmus (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:20 PM

Jan 2019

PETRUS

(3,678 posts)

6. The usual approach is to chip away, not "defund."

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:34 PM

Jan 2019

If you want to know who is on board with that, research the "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform."

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

3. I didn't see it that way.

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:19 PM

Jan 2019

It is the Republicans who want to gut Social Security. So I figured it was the same old fight.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

5. The 1% do not need Social Security.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:23 PM

Jan 2019

The GOP has always opposed it.

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