Scary. Glad fate intervened.

TYT Cenk explains in 2011 BILL CLINTON Whispering to PAUL RYAN About the election and CUTS TO MEDICARE at billionaire financier PETE PETERSON Conference. >Peterson, pictured with Clinton below, has been trying to get to the Social Security $2.3 Trillion Trust Fund for years. - Ryan now wants to end Obamacare protections for people with pre-existing conditions.





MEDICARE was enacted in 1965 during President Lyndon B. Johnson's Administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

Wiki: Peter George "PETE" PETERSON (Peter Petropoulos) (born June 5, 1926) is an American businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, philanthropist, and author, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 29, 1972 to February 1, 1973. He is also known as founder and principal funder of The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which he established in 2008 with a $1 billion endowment.
*The group focuses on raising public awareness about U.S. fiscal-sustainability issues related to FEDERAL DEFICITS, ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS, and TAX POLICIES. In recognition of his support, the influential Peterson Institute for International Economics was named in his honor in 2006.
Before serving as Secretary of Commerce, Peterson was Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell, from 1963 to 1971. From 1973 to 1984 he was Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. In 1985 he co-founded the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group, which went public in 2007. Peterson was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations until retiring in 2007, after being named chairman emeritus. In 2008, Peterson was ranked 149th on the "Forbes 400 Richest Americans" with a net worth of $2.8 billion.
*Peterson has been named the most influential billionaire in U.S. politics.
On August 4, 2010, it was announced that he had signed "The Giving Pledge." He was one of 40 billionaires, led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who agreed to give at least half their wealth to charity. Most of his giving has, however, been to his own foundation, dedicated to forwarding his political views rather than traditional charitable works.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_George_Peterson
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027787543

expectations and results are in play IMO.

Bernie phenomenon that TPTB will try to fast track all their pet projects like privatization during a Clinton term.

lecture again, it needs to be circulated widely!

FDR's Welfare 'reformed', broken down like the Social Safety net, unions, worker protections, democratic institutions.

You know Bill worked on privatizing Social Security in 1997 with Newt Gingrich at WH meetings, mentioned it at the State of the Union address in Jan. 1998, but then the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. And Dubya almost succeeded with privatizing it on Wall Street too in 2005, I'm fairly certain. Wouldn't THAT have been something with the all the misery brought by 2008?

The left doesn't fight back as hard against bad policies that are pushed by Democrats, so though our politicians are a little better than Republicans, they can sometimes do more harm.

Truthdig, May 5, 2016. Democratic Sen. Mark Warner Urges the Rich to Challenge Populist Anger (Video)

On Monday, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of VA Urged Business Elites to Be More Involved in Politics. Milken Institute Conference. .."We need Entitlement Reform, we need tax reform, it generates revenue."
Posted on May 5, 2016

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of VA urges business elites, "we need ENTITLEMENT REFORM, we need TAX REFORM, it generates revenue. If you don't get engaged, you're turning the keys over to the extremes." May 1-4, Milken Institute 2016 Global Conference.
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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia called on an audience of business and political elites to respond to PUBLIC DISCONTENT by LOBBYING HARDER for the reduction of corporate taxes and the cutting of public programs like SOCIAL SECURITY. Warner spoke Monday at the Milken Institute’s 2016 Global Conference. The economic policy think tank gathers politicians, corporate executives and others annually. http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/conferences/global-conference/2016/program-glance/date/2016-05-02

*Zaid Jilani writes at The Intercept:
Although a dominant populist sentiment is that the system is already rigged in favor of the rich, Warner suggested that the “business community” needs to get more involved in politics or face unpleasant repercussions.
“If you don’t think the frustration of Americans with our overall system — not just our political system, but our business system, our tax code — is at the boiling point, then KATY BAR THE DOOR!,” he said.
>“The walls that are gonna have to be built, may not be at borders, they may be around neighborhoods the way they are in many Third World countries around the world,” Warner warned. …
Warner’s panel on tax reform and the federal debt also includes Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., Ernst & Young CEO Mark Weinberger, and Maya MacGuineas, who chairs the corporate-backed lobbying group Fix The Debt.
Warner bemoaned that his years of efforts to strike a congressional “GRAND BARGAIN” based on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan had resulted in failure. …

>Weinberger, for his part, complained that Congress is too responsive to the public. “In fact when I worked for [former Missouri Republican Senator] Jack Danforth many years ago, he had a great line. People think in Washington we’re so [disassociated], we’re so aloof, we’re so unconnected to the general public. Nothing could be further from the truth, quite frankly. And we want to do what they want us to do to get elected, in many cases.”
He continued: “The problem is when you have candidates on both sides of the aisle ATTACKING THE CORPORATE INSTITUTION as all greedy and rich … And all not paying their fair share … all the institutions lose trust.”

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/democratic_sen_mark_warner_urges_the_rich_to_20160505

Posted Today BY Cali, MORE: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027812688

Hadn't seen it, not surprised but still disgusted.

a la Fast Track. Very disturbing especially trying to convey this to those unaware. For some it's too scary to hear, much less believe.

and Hillary?

Didn't the Koch brothers recently say they find her a better alternative?

working for the 1% anyhow so why not let them decide? (NOTE) I am extremely depressed today and this just shows it.

Sometimes I get these waves of depression where the dominate feeling is why bother? Wish I could help.

This was a great video. I'm definitely going to have to get the book.

Just curious, were you born on a Friday?

The 28-day emotional biorhythm cycle swings from critical to high to critical to low and back to critical on the day of your birth throughout your life.

today.

judgment, motivation, and mood.

Never shop on an emotionally critical day. You are likely to come home and ask yourself why you made that purchase.

An emotional eater who starts a diet on a critical or low day will struggle or fail.

to read it but would like to learn to deter it another time.

MONDAY'S CHILD Lyrics
- Common modern versions include:

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonnie and blithe and good and gay.[1]

- Often some of the lines are switched as in:

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child works hard for a living,
Saturday's child is loving and giving,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good in every way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%27s_Child

Clinton Foundation gets a bribe, you get the Clintons to do business on the taxpayer's dime.

They succeeded in making their threats work, realized they could continue getting away with it, and determined that we'd be happy with the few scraps they throw us along the way.

This is why Democratic officials and candidates think it's ok to attack liberals and their own traditional supporters. They're not going to vote republican.

Wow, he gets it, and he's more liberal than Hillary and her supporters.

I think I want to read his book too. On my list it goes.

--imm

Very interesting material - talking about Clinton mostly and things like NAFTA, undoing Glass-Steagall and how he and Gingrich tried to privatize Social Security. At the end of the segment when Leonard said they were out of time, Frank said "but I'm just getting started!". It was funny.

Frank is VERY passionate about getting this message out.

The show should be uploaded to the site soon but there are many interesting segments if you care to peruse:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/

This guy really says it like it is. I'm impressed.

and you're welcome!

To me there always seems to be something facile and flippant about his writing style. It just turns me off.

I've always been skeptical of these sorts of "gurus" who claim to have all the answers.

it exposes you for who you really are.

I think that suggests that maybe you are embarrassed about who I might mean.

Sorry, but sometimes the truth needs to be told and Thomas Frank is telling the truth. And so am I.

You are a tool to her, to be used to further her agenda of unbridled greed for power and wealth.


Better pick a small bus to get thrown under while Hillary is mentioning women and children.

Every time she does that it's misdirection covering her selling you out to her financial backers.

Only observations that were critical of the status quo.
And I would guess that is what made you feel like that.

Neither party has kept up with the needs of the middle class. They seem to represent more of the fringe any more. A new party that represents those in the middle could be the demise of the Dems and Republicans. How many congressional members are housewives, or factory workers or members of the working class? They don't represent us because they are not us. Most have moved into positions of power because they have money and lots of it. Well, I think we can all agree that money doesn't equal intelligence. We need fundamental changes in this country. We can give lots of money to countries like Israel who have universal healthcare, but we cannot provide it for the citizens of this country.

Not for social reasons, but maybe for economical reasons. Maybe this means we need more parties to represent the people.

So let's sum this up.

Dems are no longer the party of the working class, but instead the highly educated professionals.

The world opens up for them. The time that you spend top at universities, defines you as an individual. Worth is established by achievement at graduate school. Meritocracy. The conviction that those at the top deserve their rewards because they are the best. Meritocracy is not a doctrine for mitigating inequality...this is a doctrine for rationalizing inequality.

Everyone gets what they deserve by how they did in school. You got straight A's..that's awesome...you're going to be doing really well. You didn't finish high school, you should be picking up cans on the side of the road.

There is no solidarity in a Meritocracy. It is the exact opposite idea. You didn't make the grade? Well too goddamn bad.

Our "left" party has chosen, over the last 30 years, to turn it's back on the working party and it's concerns, and make themselves into the tribune of the enlightened professional class...the creative class.

All of the rest of us...suck it baby.

You get it.


Happy to support your post. (Summation)


And an R&K for a thoughtful thread.

yet no mention of Sanders, as if he and millions of his supporters didn't exist. Perhaps he does in his book, haven't read it.

he says "There is an alternative". It's pretty clear he was talking about Bernie even though he didn't mention him by name.

I guess he didn't feel a need to say it, interesting.

was so proud of as Tommy says. We can follow Canada and other countries' policies like universal health care, family leave and childcare, affordable college, bank regulation, strong employment. Why not, the money is there, so it's the will.