2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo, I think everyone here on DU should let the President
know how we feel about his 'suggested' change to Social Security.
Go to the link below:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)And I have called and emailed saying I support his Administration and have their back
because I have seen the enemy in action
and this issue is so unimportant in the scheme of things
5000 more immediate and important to the general Democratic voters of 2008 and 2012.
The core voters of which I am one.
RC
(25,592 posts)he were acting as a Liberal, with the general population and those in need in mind? You know, pushing for Single Payer, Universal Health care, lowering the age of retirement back down to 65, Protecting Social Security, instead of helping the Conservatives to gut it. Actually strengthening Medicare. Getting our Living Wage Jobs back into this country. Working at stopping the H1 Visa influx that are taking good jobs away from well qualified American workers and giving them to foreign workers, who work cheaper.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I want 100% citizenship as quick as possible. With voting rights.But I am not fickle. Nor do I demand. Silly of people to come to the dance then ditch someone. I always thought that was rude. I will give it all the time in the world to click. After all, this back and forth only helps the alt-media cottage industry on all sides to make megamoney for their own greedy selves.
As for immigration-Those people are already doing that hard work, they never whine. They need citizenship as soon as the times allow working with the systems. They not only deserve quick they also could use reporations for what they had to go through too.
Health care will be better, its getting better every day and those that had a major corporation paying for them should remember they were lucky as it was a taxable benefit that was not taxed.
The self employed never had that benefit, it was 100% out of pocket, instead of a major corproation(teh same ones that people seem to hate) giving freedie benefits.
Where was the equality in that?
I wish mine had been $750 a month and under the last 20 plus years. That would have been cool. Instead of 15% every year around April like clockwork without fail til President Obama's kicked in this year and I was able to change and save $1600 of REAL out of pocket dollars per month not some fantasy thinking some number might or might not change that is pennies to those dollars.
The freedom to be rid of the chains of ONE company to move to others, that is real freedom and real President Obama needs my thanks for that. HE DID IT. So I and the millions of others and the hundreds of millions of others next year thank him for it.
Not to mention the actuary raw stat age of most minority groups is only 70 meaning SS is a low concern issue when they pay in and don't survive til they are 80 or 90 so its a non-entity in importance.
FDR never envisioned it as a single form of someones income.
And FDR never made a constant number.
And FDR never would have won election due to his handicap in 2008 and 2012, remember he had to hide it when he ran, and there was no major media.
Now the media would not have allowed it (transparency and all.)
So one can not compare FDR then with Obama now.
Both are clones of each other morally in their wants. As was Lincoln and LBJ and Carter.
They all have to deal with the cards in hand.
And anyhow, why should Obama
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)we can say that about anything ...
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)2013-2020
Being that nothing has been taken away from anybody, all this whining over something not happening is silly.
I'll take actual numbers.
Not floaters
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Thanking you for posting.
k&r