The Democratic Party needs to ask every senior citizen..

If we let Republicans take your Social Security away, what income source will you live on? How will you keep a roof over your head, pay bills, and eat?

Why would a senior citizen vote for the Republican Party when the goal of the Repubs is to END Social Security and Medicare?

The Dem Party needs a national campaign of educating seniors to the FACT that Repubs are hell bent on ending Social Security and Medicare.

The Dem Party needs to reach out to senior citizens. Our party is losing this demographic that tends to be among the highest as far as turnout goes. In other words, seniors tend to turn out and vote.

We need to bring the support of senior citizens back to our party.

Protecting the livelihoods of our senior citizens is imperative.

My mother is preparing to retire after a lifetime of hard work as a nurse. I want to protect my mothers livelihood and her right to her earned Social Security and Medicare benefits. Many DU'ers have a parent or close loved one on SS/MC, or many DU'ers themselves are retired and on SS/MC.

I want the Democratic Party to protect their livelihoods from the Republican Party.

It's time for the Dems to make this a nationwide issue.

Today, seniors have fewer and fewer allies in Washington. Not many are looking out for the interests of our seniors.

That's gotta stop.

The Democratic Party is the only voice our seniors have left.

It's time for the Dem Party to once again become the party that protects American senior citizens.

Anything less is unacceptable.

What do you think his deficit reduction committee is for?

Utter disgust is what I feel. Only way I can explain it.

And I really hope they know it too.

"Faith based initiatives will take better care of you than you can take care of yourself with Soc Sec"? - "so, invest your own money and then, if you need more help, buy into somekind of church-run facility" . . . ?

If we are going to fight this, we have to prepare for how it will be framed. What frames are there out there to chose from that will sound plausible when compared to doing away with Social Security?

a libertarian who is both generous and gives a shit about you.

Peterson is financing a media blitz. His tendentious documentary--I.O.U.S.A.--opened in 400 theaters and was broadcast on CNN with appropriate solemnity. Last September Peterson bought two full pages in the New York Times to urge the next president to create a "bipartisan fiscal responsibility commission" once he was in office (Peterson was for John McCain). This group of so-called experts would be authorized to design the reforms for Congress to enact. But Peterson does not want Congress to have a full, freewheeling debate on the particulars. The reform package, he suggests, should be submitted to a single "up-or-down vote by Congress, as is done with military base closings." That's one of the gimmicks intended to give politicians cover and protect them from their constituents. It is profoundly antidemocratic. But that's the idea--save the government from the unruly passions of citizens. Peterson's proposal also resembles the notorious fast-track provision, which for years enabled presidents to steamroll Congress on trade agreements, no amendments allowed.

Peterson's proposal would essentially dismantle the Social Security entitlement enacted in the New Deal, much as Bill Clinton repealed the right to welfare. Peterson has assembled influential allies for this radical step. They include a coalition of six major think tanks and four tax-exempt foundations.


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090302/greider/single



Does that bold part sound familiar?

that if Mr. Peterson is successful, we will soon after have a new nation and new political parties, after the fire-sale on hanging ropes.

corporate logos when they stand before the House or Senate spouting their lies.

I think it's time for the Dem party to bluntly ask that question.

I mean, run TV ads targeting seniors and asking that very question.

Fuck No! Oh! the horror!! of believing that the group/Social-construct ****OWES**** individual people something for their membership in, and cooperation with, the group, a.k.a. Socialism.

Most of the senior citizens spend too much time listening to Limbaugh and watching the zany Beck,they are brainwashed.

semi-public viewing situation in this country is tuned to Faux News?

Curious edits to his Social Security page.

And this week the Obama campaign modified his position on a sensitive issue: Social Security.

Compare the current "Seniors & Social Security" page with the previous version.
http://versionista.com/diff/O0rWJ6UUS6nPJdXjl@h@Rw/beside

Now, tell me why, oh why, would the Obama campaign decide to delete the following sentence: " does not believe it is necessary or fair to hardworking seniors to raise the retirement age." Is he trying to stoke anxiety about his position on Social Security?

http://www.slate.com/id/2200517/

Another Day, Another Drip.
Drip, Drip, Drip. Drip. Drip .....

or banks.


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