Lockheed Martin's CEO Is AFTER Your SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!

[Segami]

Run time: 03:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVgvfnzwFPI   Posted on YouTube: September 21, 2011 By YouTube Member: bravenewfoundation Views on YouTube: 330   Posted on DU: September 21, 2011 By DU Member: Segami Views on DU: 1117

 
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"...Tell committee members to keep war contractors' hands off the money that should go to Social Security and Medicare: http://warcosts.com

The law that created the deficit committee also created a zero-sum game: Any expensive program that escapes the budget knife does so at the expense of cuts to other programs. If the military contractors succeed in keeping the war budget intact, they'll likely do so at the expense of Social Security and Medicare. That means money that would go to your Social Security or Medicare benefits will instead go into the hands of people like Lockheed Martin CEO Robert J. Stephens, who last year made $21.9 million, almost totally from taxpayer-funded military contracts.

This should an easy choice: cut the war budget.



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[valerief]

1. But rich people get richer from the war budget and the most important thing in the world

is for rich people to get richer.

Teevee tells me that non-stop.

[RC]

2. It should be, but when multimillionaires are making the rules, it ain'ta gonna happen.

Especially when they got their millions on behest of the war mongers, through their lobbyists.

"This should an easy choice: cut the war budget."

[kenfrequed]

3. This is important

And it should be looked at by any of the rah-rah sorts that thought the supercommittee was a good idea.

[DocMac]

6. I never saw

anyone on DU express any positive thoughts on the supercommittee.

Or anywhere else for that matter.

[kenfrequed]

8. That's fair

Perhaps I presumed that there was some modicum of "trust the system" somewhere on the site that doesn't in fact exist. I guess getting burned on not getting a public option while the defenders of the finance committee blathered on really made me cynical.

But right, I haven't seen a hard defence of the supercommitte process yet, though I seem to recall a few "wait and see" people.

[sam11111]

4. "tax the rich" TTR - Buffet - how does that affect the Supercommittee zero sum game?

Nt

[JJW]

5. What's the problem?

Bribing public officials is free speech and corporations are people. War is peace, man!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

7. signed, tweeted, shared. n/t