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In reply to the discussion: 7 Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting SS and Medicare [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)13. We have way too many "I got Mines" in both parties and not enough Elizabeth Warrens.
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Chi-School, Hayek, Uncle Milty and Martin Feldstein's HBS Folly bullshit has got to go the way of the dodo if America expects to survive. Neoliberalism is killing America's middle/working/poor.
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7 Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting SS and Medicare [View all]
xchrom
Apr 2013
OP
All fiscal conservatives think that everyone who disagrees with them are misinformed.
UnrepentantLiberal
Apr 2013
#6
Obama will have most historians on his side because they are dependent on the good will
byeya
Apr 2013
#7
from what I learned here on DU , we need to send him more emails, coz since he so much smarter
KG
Apr 2013
#8
We have way too many "I got Mines" in both parties and not enough Elizabeth Warrens.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2013
#13
TPTB want the baby boomer gen. to die already, they've raped, pillaged & plundered and their
mother earth
Apr 2013
#15
No, precious one, it is hate and fear, we do not consume our own...GOP does...there is abundance and
mother earth
Apr 2013
#86
So not only does the 401k derive its funds from enabling the victories of Wall St.
raouldukelives
Apr 2013
#18
He wouldn't have gotten the nomination in the first place had they actually listened to
duffyduff
Apr 2013
#49
Doubtful that he will piss off his corporate pay lords since he will need them
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2013
#40
You're "more of a Democrat than he is"? By what standard? Because you say so?....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#55
Oh, pleeez. Your "concern" is pretty suspicious. The Democratic Party leader has never liked
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#36
Stating outright that a Democratic Party President is against the Dem. Party Platform...
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#89
His stances on the most important issues are NOT traditional Democratic Party stances
duffyduff
Apr 2013
#54
Maybe....but you can bet this discussion is also being held among GOPers who....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#38
"Poor leadership" by whom? By the President for hammering away at a wedge issue for 2014, or.....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#48
Oh, I get it just fine Under the current political climate, tell me how a Democrat should fight....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#63
"Offended"? LOL. You don't have a good answer to my post so you just quit, is that it? nt.
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#65
We ARE back in 2010 when Democrats abandoned the PO among other things. This is even worse
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#72
Take a chill pill and get off your high horse. Maybe you should take a break from DU. nt.
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#75
I don't take advice from people who oppose SS, who are willing to feed the lie that SS had
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#79
I doubt it, we ordinary people are not too smart. We just don't understand these brilliant chess
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#73
Sigh. SS is indeed a wedge issue in regards to pulling votes away from the GOP for the 2014....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#76
The sky may not be falling for you, and to you it may be a 'vote pulling' issue, but to millions of
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#78
I'm pretty sure we can protest a concept before it becomes legislation.
Luminous Animal
Apr 2013
#43
Why would it be a waste of time for the people to let their elected officials know what they are
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#80
Proposal only. It will never be hammered into actual legislation by Congress because....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#61
LOL!! Wow! What "bitter pill"? Where is it? There's nothing there to swallow! nt.
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#66
Nothing to swallow except a Democratic President put a cut to SSI on the table.
neverforget
Apr 2013
#67
There is no cut to anything until Congress puts together the legislation to make it a bill....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#69
It's brilliant! Piss off your base, give the Republicans the ability to say
neverforget
Apr 2013
#71
I'm a senior and I'm not pissed off by what the President is doing...far from it....
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#77
The sick truth about many pension funds have been raided by corporate raiders likes of Bain Capital.
Thinkingabout
Apr 2013
#30
This is true. Pensions were not hard to steal because they were OWNED by someone else. Employees OWN
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#37