The Democratic Party Sells Out the People, Again

Believe it or not, while the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate (the 111th Congress) and the White House are all controlled by the Democratic Party, the government is busily defunding the Social Security program with a very unwise Social Security payroll tax deduction from around the present 6% to 4%, if the Obama-Republican tax cut deal goes through, which at this date appears likely. This will put a huge financial hole in the program that will eventually allow the coming split 112th Congress to offer that fact up as an excuse to raise the Social Security eligibility age to 69 as Obama's right-wing economic commission suggested. 69! Of course, the lower economic classes that need Social Security the most will be most affected by this change since for much of the upper classes, Social Security is merely spare change, i.e., pocket money. The Democratic Party is suppose to be the "people's party," now that charade is fully exposed for the fraud it has been ever since they agreed to the Reagan tax cuts for the wealthy in the 1980's. Tax cuts for the wealthy are really just a Republican-Democratic scheme to defund the government to the point that the New Deal and Great Society programs in general will whither on the vine and disappear; the same "New Deal" that lifted America out of the Great Depression and the same "Great Society" that has been a tremendous economic boost to the poor and middle class, keeping multitudes out of the shadow of poverty, or at least the most extreme type of poverty. The recent Obama-Republican tax deal however extends the Reagan-Bush II tax cuts into perpetuity despite the official announcement of only 2 years. How President Obama can make this deal even though the Republicans will be in charge of the House of Representatives come January is beyond us, because ipso facto any expiration of the tax cuts in the near future is just fantasy. There have been a lot of jokes about the president being a "Manchurian Candidate;" well, we think not from Kenya, but perhaps from the Republican campaign committee.

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