Posted on YouTube: September 21, 2011
By YouTube Member: bravenewfoundation
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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.
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.
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