Social Security is under attack by the republicons right now.

[fasttense]

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

This link on how Republicons plan to loot our social security was posted about 10 days ago. It lays out how a very elderly billionaire, Pete Peterson, plans to con congress into looting our social security. He plans to con Congress into holding hands, and come up with a "bipartisan" plan to "fix" Social Security in a committee. Then push it onto the floor for a simple up or down vote. The beauty of his plan is that this would give cover to both parties and no one would be able to point a finger at any one cheating congress critter.

Well, what the story in The Nation doesn't tell you is that it is already in the works. My scheming Senator Bob Corker had a telephonic town hall meeting yesterday. In it he reassured one very nervous elderly man that he had no plans to take away, or reduce his Social Security. But during the next question he explained how it would be in Americas best interest to pick 4 Democrats and 4 republicons in a bipartisan committee, come up with a social security "fix" then push it onto the floor for a simple up or down vote.

So good old Bob Corker lied to his elderly constituent and is pushing Pete Peterson's bait and switch scheme with Social Security. Stand by, remember how Corker/Porker tried to break the backs of the Unions over a loan for the car companies? Corker/Porker is bushII and would love to turnover our Social Security to Wall Street. He does not care about how many lives he will ruin or how many elderly people will die without their monthly Social Security checks.

[Captain Hilts]

1. And shits like 'Democrat' Jim Cooper. nt

[CrispyQ]

2. Social Security is our never ending battle.

They will always try to steal it & we must continue to thwart them.

I've sent this article, with snippets, to everyone I know, because I think many people believe now that dems are in control, SS is safe.

[madrchsod]

3. do these dumb fucks we are that stupid to fall for their shit?

maybe they can scare the rubes but 95% of us are not falling for it....

[Deja Q]

4. Would they have sold their own SSI into wall street before everyone else?

Uh, no...

Let them bleat. Give them a tin can to eat like how most goats in 1950s' cartoons are prone to doing. Their credibility is GONE.

Everybody remembers Bush's attempts to move SSI into wall street and then, 2008, kaboom. The swindle attempt failed then and it will do so again.

[1776Forever]

5. You can bet all those richies that Madoff & Standford ripped off will be in the front of the line!

Bring it on! This will just bury the Repub idiots even deeper!

[Faryn Balyncd]

6. Mitch McConnell says that he's ready for "bi-partisanship" as long as it sticks to gutting social ..

....security "entitlements".

[wroberts189]

7. The Grover Norquist plan ..dreamed up years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist


"Cutting the government in half in one generation is both an ambitious and reasonable goal," Norquist stated in May 2000. "If we work hard we will accomplish this and more by 2025. Then the conservative movement can set a new goal. I have a recommendation: To cut government in half again by 2050".<18> To that end, Norquist has been noted for his widely quoted quip: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."<19>