In setting up his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Barack Obama is again playing coy in public, but his intentions are widely understood among Washington insiders. The president intends to offer Social Security as a sacrificial lamb to entice conservative deficit hawks into a grand bipartisan compromise in which Democrats agree to cut Social Security benefits for future retirees while Republicans accede to significant tax increases to reduce government red ink.
Obama's commission is the vehicle created to achieve this deal. He ducks questions about his preferences, saying only that "everything has to be on the table." But White House lieutenants are privately talking up a bargain along those lines. They are telling anxious liberals to trust the president to make only moderate cuts. Better to have Democrats cut Social Security, Obama advisers say, than leave the task to bloodthirsty Republicans.
The president has stacked the deck to encourage this strategy. The eighteen-member commission is top-heavy with fiscal conservatives and hostile right-wingers who yearn to dismantle the retirement program. The Republican co-chair, former Senator Alan Simpson, is especially nasty; he likes to get laughs by ridiculing wheezy old folks. Democratic co-chair Erskine Bowles and staff director Bruce Reed secretly negotiated a partial privatization of Social Security with Newt Gingrich back when they served in the Clinton White House, but the deal blew up with Clinton's sex scandal. Monica Lewinsky saved the system.
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George Carlin: the people really running this country have stolen everything off us except Social Security, and now they're coming for that, too, and they're going to get it:
Social Security Under Attack: Cuts Proposed, Higher Retirement Age Suggested
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And here's how the people really running this country get what they want: they have a "disaster", which is called a "false flag", to shock us and blame someone else while they carry out their agenda. If you think the 47 story WTC-7 building in NY fell like this naturally on 9/11 and was NOT hit by a plane, THEN YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE AND THERE IS NO HOPE FOR YOU WHATSOEVER!!! Let me be clear to you like I was above about Obama and Social Security: you have to be REALLY STUPID to think this building fell like this and was NOT hit by a plane:
Did you ever notice, if you research 9/11, that NO EXPERTS believe the "official" 9/11 story, and that the ONLY people you'll find who pushed the "official" story were the media and politicians? Look at what the REAL experts like architects, engineers, scientists, firemen, and ALL THE EXPERTS say about the "official" 9/11 story ONLY PUSHED ON US BY THE MEDIA AND POLITICIANS:
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