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Related: About this forumThird Way Misleads Hard in a Weak Effort to Discredit Social Security Expansion
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/third-way-misleads-hard-in-a-weak-effort-to-discredit-social-security-expansion.htmlThird Way, the self-appointed sentries holding back the barbarians of progressivism from the gates of the Democratic Party, issued a new paper three days before the Iowa caucus, with the novel suggestion that Bernie Sanders proposal to expand Social Security the consensus position among the party rank-and-file and a strong majority of the Congressional Democratic caucus is not progressive, because more of its expanded benefits pass on to the rich.
This new tactic among Rubinite Democrats (Third Ways funders include hedge fund managers Dan Loeb and Derek Kaufman, and their board features dozens of investment bankers and CEOs) seeks to capitalize on the Democratic bases passions about the flow of economic growth upward to the 1%. And it will probably fool a few folks in the interim. But nobody is a more dishonest broker for that message than Third Way. Plus, the claim isnt only ham-handed and ahistorical, its factually inaccurate.
This new tactic among Rubinite Democrats (Third Ways funders include hedge fund managers Dan Loeb and Derek Kaufman, and their board features dozens of investment bankers and CEOs) seeks to capitalize on the Democratic bases passions about the flow of economic growth upward to the 1%. And it will probably fool a few folks in the interim. But nobody is a more dishonest broker for that message than Third Way. Plus, the claim isnt only ham-handed and ahistorical, its factually inaccurate.
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Third Way Misleads Hard in a Weak Effort to Discredit Social Security Expansion (Original Post)
antigop
Feb 2016
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Faux pas
(14,681 posts)1. My opinion of the
turd way:
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)2. Gotta love it when a group of billionaires express concern
for us poor working stiffs.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)3. So the Clinton Campaign uses more outright lies to sell the same old shit.
Is anyone surprised?
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)4. "Democrats" trying to Kill Social Security.
Jesus fucking Christ