Senator Mark Warner suggests cutting social security. Think he's the only Dem

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who will fuck us? Get real. Think the MSM will cover this? Only if it makes cuts the urgent, reasonable thing to do. Think I trust Hill dear to stand up against folks like Warner? Bwahaha. And Fuck no.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia called on an audience of business and political elites to respond to public discontent by lobbying harder for the reduction of corporate taxes and the cutting of public programs like Social Security.

Warner spoke Monday at the Milken Institute’s 2016 Global Conference. The economic policy think tank gathers politicians, corporate executives and others annually.

Zaid Jilani writes at The Intercept:

Although a dominant populist sentiment is that the system is already rigged in favor of the rich, Warner suggested that the “business community” needs to get more involved in politics or face unpleasant repercussions.

“If you don’t think the frustration of Americans with our overall system — not just our political system, but our business system, our tax code — is at the boiling point, then Katy bar the door!,” he said. “The walls that are gonna have to be built, may not be at borders, they may be around neighborhoods the way they are in many Third World countries around the world,” Warner warned. …

Warner’s panel on tax reform and the federal debt also includes Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., Ernst & Young CEO Mark Weinberger, and Maya MacGuineas, who chairs the corporate-backed lobbying group Fix The Debt.

Warner bemoaned that his years of efforts to strike a congressional “Grand Bargain” based on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan had resulted in failure. …

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http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/democratic_sen_mark_warner_urges_the_rich_to_20160505

Excellent in-depth piece here:

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/6/1524091/-A-Democrat-wants-to-Cut-Social-Security