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In reply to the discussion: Robert Reich: Selling the Store: Why Dems Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)15. No matter how you analyze the gamesmanship
It is our duty to raise the largest ruckus possible over this. We need to lay it out there.
We will support primary challenges over this issue, if it goes to a vote and we get sold out.
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Robert Reich: Selling the Store: Why Dems Shouldn’t Put Social Security and Medicare on the Table [View all]
marmar
Mar 2013
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I have come to realise that it is not "Democrats" putting the safety net on the table
djean111
Mar 2013
#2
As Bill Maher says, 'Democrats moved to the right, and Republicans moved into the asylum.'
marmar
Mar 2013
#4
The very fact that SS/Medicare HAS been "Put-On-the-Table" has forever damaged it.
bvar22
Mar 2013
#6
My grandparents' generation contributed to Social Security only the last two decades of their workin
maddiemom
Mar 2013
#21
Not weak, just complicit with GOP goals for Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. nt
NorthCarolina
Mar 2013
#18
I wish The Progressive Caucus would start organizing as a third party then
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#26
It's not a 'compromise', it is policy. Using Republicans alone to get their hands on the SS fund
sabrina 1
Mar 2013
#27
Sad. The Pukes flatly refuse to put revenues on the table, in any shape form or fashion.
Bake
Mar 2013
#29
Ironically, after selling us out they will blame the left for not voting for them.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#37
that's what so infuriating. lies on top of lies, and everyone pretends they're gospel. on both
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#41