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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Sam who wrote (249285)4/18/2014 10:38:43 AM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (2) of 542585
 
The liabilities can never be fully funded

To do so bankrupts the entity that tries, like the Post Office

These programs have, since their inception, been designed to be inter generational in nature

You pay it forward

What they do require is a robust, expanding economy

A situation that is incompatible with an austerity program driven by revenue reduction so the pigs at the top can avoid carrying an appropriate share of the cost of the economic expansion

Can't have it both ways

...why the oligarchy situation we are finding ourselves in is so dangerous to the vast majority of Americans

The 1% would like nothing more than scrapping Social Security, Medicare and the ACA

..and they may get enough congressional clout to make it happen
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