Really Pathetic
Digby has Zero’s latest excuse for cutting Social Security, and no one is buying it outside of the Villagers.
Apparently the “longtime Obama aide” who is attempting to deflect the building anger has the historical perspective of a mayfly. The Hedgemony, the guys who were in office when Zero was elected, tried to sell privatizing Social Security. The Shrubbery put on his ‘show and tell’ claiming that US Treasury bonds were not real assets, so there wasn’t an actual Social Security Trust Fund. Of course, the people behind the attempt have at various times thought that Enron stock and Lehman Brothers bonds were ‘real assets’. The gang that convinced the world of the need for a war against Iraq, got their heads handed to them when they messed with Social Security.
As Duncan keeps saying the problem is ‘People got no jobs. People got no money.’ Start really putting people back to work fixing the infrastructure using all the money that people are throwing at us to get those US Treasury bonds, and all of the problems go away. Putting more people out of work with austerity, and taking money from Social Security recipients is just going to make things worse. From Duncan again: “Contractionary Policy Is Contractionary.”
