Social Security has operated for 75 years, it wasn't until the Congress bailed out corporate responsibility and insurance companies from workers disability, added unfunded drug benefits in medicare that the Social Security program started to collapse. The solution is to separate the retirement system of Social Security from the disability and medicare welfare functions and create
a newly funded program.
The smears and hits on Social Security may provide for election time talk and get candidates political attention, but provoke nothing but fear in both our seniors and our young folks looking at their futures.
The United Nation General Assembly definition of terrorism ” CRIMINAL ACTS INTENDED OR CALCULATED TO PROVOKE A STATE OF TERROR IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC,
A GROUP OF PERSONS OR PARTICULAR PERSONS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.ARE IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE UNJUSTIFIABLE, WHATEVER THE CONSIDERATIONS OF A POLITICAL,PHILOSOPHICAL,IDEOLOGICAL,RACIAL,ETHNIC,RELIGIOUS OR ANY OTHER NATURE THAT MAY BE INVOKED TO JUSTIFY THEM ”
Are Lies, Scare Tactics used by the GOP {Repugnant Party} to put fear in our citizens a form of terrorism designed to panic and mold public opinion to accept right-wing ideology?
There is a concentrated attack on young people, putting jobs, the economy, declining earnings, stagnation of wages, threats of Social Security and Medicare bankruptcy at the same time cutting educational opportunities that leads to upward mobility for a whole generation, being used to put economic insecurity and fear as political weapons.
WHY? Plain and simple, payback and voter suppression.
Get the young voters turned off and scared for their future and drive their votes away from President Obama in the next election. There is no doubt that the massive 18 to 34 year old vote for Obama contributed to his election victory, destroy that vote and destroy his second term.
Unemployment for this age group this year has skyrocketed and most have never qualified for unemployment benefits. (Unemployment is estimated at 25.4 percent for 19-to-23-year-old), Underemployment and lack of benefits on available low wage jobs contribute to insecurity and depressed attitudes on the direction the country is taking. An important measure of electorial decision making. "are you better off today, is the country on the right track?"
Educational opportunities are diminished and faced with the raising cost of education has created poor choices NOT MORE CHOICE as Republican legislators across the country are promising parents. {Republicans are not ProChoice anything.) Proposed cuts in educational grants, higher interest rate student loans in the name of balanced budgets is as phony as the weapons of mass destruction hidden away in Iraq.
It may be easy to point out public failures, but what about solutions. Each and every day it seems a new or "reborn" Republican candidate for President pops up. Each new flavor or favorite rips into President Obama without a solution except to "make Obama a one term President". They have no new proposals and most don't even offer a clue to how to start our economy moving again.
Wouldn't it be refreshing if just one of them would come up with a work incentive program? Something directed to getting 19 to 26 year old jobs, training and even temporary paychecks while the adults in charge of this country start building and rebuilding rather than taking pickaxes at our crumbling economy as a result of too many unfunded, off budget ventures, wars and tax cuts for the few most rich.
Since states are not able or find themselves having fiscal problems the federal government, yes government, yes the one in Washington, D.C. needs to step in and sell savings bonds to provide the funds for Public Works Projects. The name is already in the annuals of American history, PWA, Public Works Aministration, FDR, New Deal, 1933. We started paying for our involvement in World War II with "War Savings Bonds" another successful government program. Instead of calling on China or anyone else in the world to buy our bonds lets have Americans start their own savings plans.
[My opinion not necessarily agreed upon by DOV...Harvey Akeson]
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