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Dragonfli

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2. It was crazy sure, but so worth it in the end! We can now cash SS in for bargaining chips
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 04:39 PM
Apr 2013

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Got to think several moves ahead, thousands even. Now that we have a chessmaster worthy of the endgame, generations of Democratic planning will come to fruition in a Grand bargain where we start trading these assets in as bargaining chips to accomplish FDRs true plan, bipartisan austerity measures with only minor tax increases on billionaires!

We have enough bargaining chips so that even after a grand bargain, there will still be enough left to use to convince Republicans to support plans they came up with but won't pass because The President adopted them and proposed them back as compromise.

Who knows, since we will be starting with trillions in assets and we are taking it small slices at a time, we will have bargaining chips for maybe a dozen years before we have used up all the chips and that decoy SS program completely.

have to use this I think because there are many Conservative Dems posting here that think this is a good, sensible, very serious and courageous plan.

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