Ring of Fire: Can We Save Social Security?

[GoLeft TV]

During the Bush years, the Republican Party tried desperately to privatize Social Security, and put it into the hands of Wall Street bankers. This idea was sold to the public by telling them that the system was broken, and that it would soon run out of money. That talking point didn’t fly with the American public, but that hasn’t stopped the attacks on Social Security – a program that works, but actually does need some help.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins and attorney Seth Katz discuss what’s happening.

[on point]

1. Simple. Remove the income cap. Problem solved. The only threat is conservatives trying to kill it

[upaloopa]

2. The problem is the same with anything repubs

want to do. The media takes facts and repub lies and gives them equal weight.

[sabrina 1]

3. Only if not a single Democrat supports any attempt to privatize it. But I wouldn't count on that

anymore. When Bush tried his '50 state' trip to try to finally accomplish the decades-long attempt to once again privatize that fund, he was sent home by the American people, despite his 'popularity' as a war President, which they thought he could use effectively, after only a few states. It was a disaster and began the plummeting ratings he never got back.

Only a Dem can accomplish what has failed each and every time a Republican tried it.

We'll see I suppose.

[zeemike]

4. I would like to see two of those things and not the other.

Eliminate the cap altogather...we all pay the same percentage.
Raise the minimum wage and wages in general...
But no means testing...once you go down that road it becomes welfare and it is not welfare but social insurance.

And actually if those two were done the trust fund would be growing so much they could reduce the percentage we all pay.

[drynberg]

6. Agreed, let's make it happen...Ideas?

[zeemike]

9. Well I wish i had and idea how to bring it about

But short of a mass march on Washington and a American spring I don't see it happening.

[colsohlibgal]

5. Iffy

If the right had their way we'd have a real life "Elysium" type divide.

[Enthusiast]

7. If they had their way all useless eaters would simply die, now.

Providing for useless eaters hurts the war effort.

What war?

Believe me, we will have more war, bigger and more unnecessary than ever as soon as we get another Republican president.

[midnight]

8. I wil listen later.