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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmericans Support Expanding Social Security But The GOP Is Still Trying To Cut It!
From Huffington Post and Social Security Works:
Largely unreported in the negativity of this years election is how united the American people are over Social Security. New data from Public Policy Polling confirms what multiple other polls have found: Irrespective of age, race, gender, or party affiliation, Americans support expanding, not cutting, Social Security.
A favorite strategy of Social Securitys opponents is to try and pit different generations against each other. Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY), co-chair of the failed Bowles-Simpson Commission, is among those eager to stoke generational warfare. On more than one occasion, he has asserted that seniors (who he generally labels greedy geezers) dont care about their grandchildren a whit.
Fortunately, Simpsons America is not the real America. In the real America, grandparents and grandchildren care about each other. American families know that we are stronger together. And the new polling shows that. It reveals that the effort to turn grandparents and grandchildren against each other has failed: 70 percent of 18-29 year olds, 65 percent of 30-45 year olds, 76 percent of 46-65 year olds, and 70 percent of Americans over 65 all support expanding, not cutting, Social Security. The story is very similar when it comes to race: 69 percent of whites, 82 percent of African-Americans, and 79 percent of Latinos are united in support of expansion.
Party affiliation, too, makes little difference. The Republican Party has spent decades working to cut and privatize Social Security, but the Partys base disagrees: the majority of Republicans support expanding benefits, as do 87 percent of Democrats and 73 percent of Independents.
Of course, the media pundits and GOP congress-critters ('moderate' or conservative) will keep repeating the Catfood Commission's tripe that "Social Security and Medicare are going broke" and "Social Security and Medicare are bankrupting the country," and "we must, really must 'fix entitlements' (code words for draconian cuts!!!).
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Americans Support Expanding Social Security But The GOP Is Still Trying To Cut It! (Original Post)
LongTomH
Oct 2016
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Wounded Bear
(58,676 posts)1. K & R ......for visibility..nt
liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)2. We Need to Get Rid of It
And replace it, and most other government programs, with a Basic Minimum Income.
With robotics, computerization, and replacing workers with foreign labor by sending jobs elsewhere, which all the rich politicians seem to want to support, so "they" can buy cheap stuff (not the workers who will and have lost their jobs tho), this problem is coming to a head.
And hey, it'd be nice to hear Democrats actually reacting to something, and coming up with an original idea that doesn't stem from some form of Reaganism.