Will Marshall in 2002 put down need for Medicare and Social Security.

[madfloridian]

Robert Borosage is a co-director of Campaign for America's Future. Here is
the website, a very good one.
http://www.ourfuture.org/

They led the fight in the 2002 elections to save Social Security and
Medicare in its current form.

Will Marshall, PPI/DLC, attacked them viciously in 2002, calling them a
union-backed group that can be compared to the Inquisition, latter-day
Torquemadas, who oppose change to the system.
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=251076&kaid=125&subid=165

"Nothing better epitomized the hackneyed and reactive character of the
Democrats' 2002 midterm campaign than "The Pledge."
Like camp meeting converts swearing off demon rum, nearly every Democratic
candidate for Congress dutifully took the Pledge. They vowed to never, ever
allow working Americans to divert some portion of their Social Security
payroll taxes into personal retirement accounts. In leftish circles, this
goes by the name of "privatization" and is regarded as the ultimate
political thought crime. "

SNIP.."And lest Democrats entertain any impure thoughts about reforming
Medicare, the pledge also requires them to swear fealty to a new
prescription drug entitlement "that will cover all drugs beneficiaries need"
and that won't "push beneficiaries into HMOs and other managed care plans."

The pledge is the brainchild of the Campaign for America's Future, a
union-backed organization that is to Social Security and Medicare what the
Inquisition was to medieval Christiandom. Its latter-day Torquemadas enforce
New Deal-Great Society orthodoxy and ferret out heresy with religious
zeal..."

In this article Marshall also calls prescription drug care "a lavish entitlement."

[Cocoa]

1. Marshall lost

let's not forget that Marshall and the DLC and Bush lost bigtime on Social Security.

The democratic party told the privatizers to shove it.

[Q]

2. This pretty much describes the ideology of the DLC...

...and the political hacks that run it.

It clearly shows that DLCers have the same agenda as the Right when it comes to ending social programs or denying health care to all Americans.

They're determined to destroy the Democratic party. Will they succeed? Only if the 'left' gives up and votes another one into office.

[Fritz67]

3. Barf...

Will Marshall, PPI/DLC, attacked them viciously in 2002, calling them a
union-backed group that can be compared to the Inquisition, latter-day
Torquemadas, who oppose change to the system.

(emphasis added)

Sure...Social Security has only worked for like seventy years.

But I forgot, the stock brokers aren't making any money off of it.

The answers are simple:

1. Put Social Security into a lockbox that noone, Republican or Democrat, can raid to cover up the deficit.

2. Raise the salary cap.

Oh, wait...once again, there won't be any stock brokers making money off of it.
:sarcasm:

[Eloriel]

4. Heheh

I like your style.

Welcome to DU. :toast:

[Fritz67]

5. Thanks

I live in Indiana, a Red State, so this is a great place to find people with brains in their heads.

I'm hoping to get my web site up and running soon--I make a version of that same joke there.