Obama's Social Security cuts = Bill Clinton's NAFTA

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When the topic is convenient to Republicans, they still love to blame free trade on Clinton, even though the version of NAFTA that we still operate under today isn't the same version that then Pres Clinton signed into law.

A Ray-gun appointed federal judge took a scalpel to Clinton's NAFTA by scrapping the provisions that PROTECTED American jobs by keeping them here by striking down said provision/amendment while keeping the rest of the NAFTA law in place.

Said decision opened up the floodgates for American corps to began outsourcing to Mexico for cheaper labor. Clinton and Bush later expanded free trade into Central American nations.

However, Bush's policies of giving major tax incentives to corporations to outsource is really what gave outsourcing its fangs. Following the Bush tax cuts of 2001, American manufacturing and our factories shut down and outsourced MILLIONS of jobs to China, India etc.

To this day, Clinton still takes most of the blame for the way that outsourcing has ravaged our country to the point of still threatening the demise of our nation. Even though today, Republicans are the party that is protecting job outsourcing by refusing to scale back free trade and by FILIBUSTERING the "Bring Jobs Home Act" to death.

Clinton still takes a large part of the blame for unleashing his American jobs protecting version of NAFTA upon the people, which a federal judge made into the beast of an American job-killing law that NAFTA is today.

Republicans love to blame job outsourcing on Dems when it's conveneint to them, even though they are the party that is hell bent on preserving job outsourcing.

If Obama cuts Social Security and Medicare, the Democratic Party will forever be labeled as a party willing to cut Social Security and a party that really isn't out to protect seniors.

Republicans will use this argument against Dems for DECADES to come, if Obama cuts SS/MC.

They'll blame Dems for harming SS the way they blame Dems for free trade.

We don't need two pro-free-trade parties, we need ALL Dems to be an alternative to pro-FT Rethugs.

We don't need two pro-slash-SS/MC parties, we need ALL Dems to be an alternative to slash/kill-SS Rethugs.

President Obama, will you be the president that Rethugs refer to as proof that Dems harm SS when they are campaigning to seniors? They will tell seniors that it was in fact a Democratic president that slashed SS, if you continue forward with your plan to slash SS.

This will cause great harm to the future of the Democratic Party that will resonate for decades. If seniors can't trust Dems to protect SS, then who do we think they will vote for?

Cutting SS will be Obama's NAFTA and another major strike against the Democratic Party in the future.

Save SS by eliminating the $110,000(approx) annual earning cap where they stop deducting if the person earns more.

Eliminating that cap will save SS. Chaining the cost-of-living is just another weak attempt at kicking the can down the road. It won't save SS.