If Dems Give in, Social Security and Medicare Will be Future Hostages

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/if-dems-give-social-security-and-medicare-will-be-future-hostages-1381672410

They continue these tactics because it is getting them what they – and the billionaires and giant corporations who fund them – want. They do it because it works. And then they do it again, because it worked.

Here’s the thing about this budget “standoff.” If Democrats or President Obama give in again, Social Security and Medicare will certainly be targets, sooner than later. What else?

Things Republicans hate:

•#1 of all time: Social Security.
•#2 of all time: Medicare.
•Public schools.
•Environmental Protection.
•The Food and Drug Administration.
•The minimum wage.
•The eight-hour workday and the 40-hour workweek.
•Unions and the National Labor Relations Board – the right of workers to organize.
•The 47% of Americans who they say are “takers” and “moochers.”
•Anything other than fossil fuels to provide energy.

This is not a complete list. Think of things Republicans hate, and then try to picture them not using hostage-taking to dismantle whatever you are thinking of.

[Fumesucker]

1. You say that like it's a bad thing

Obama's appointed leaders of the erstwhile Cat Food Commission, the Honorable Mr Simpson and the Honorable Mr Bowles would disagree with your assessment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform#Final_plan

[cali]

2. they're already casualties. n/t

[gopiscrap]

3. Yup and that is what the repukes are truly after

to be able to privatized Social Security has been a wet dream of theirs for 30-40 years now.