social security

The DK argument to end them all.

Submitted by martianexpatriate on Thu, 05/05/2016 - 10:03am

I just had the Daily Kos conversation to end them all. Quite literally possibly, I may get banned at some point. It was sad, amusing, and tragic all at the same time.

It started about Mark Warner, a Democrat who has taken the position that to save the country from becoming a walled off series of slums, we must cut back social security and further cut corporate taxes. Yay. Someone defended him because he said that Warner wasn't saying he wanted walled off slums.

Bernie vs HRC debate today: A+ for Hillary on Social Security

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 1:45am

For those who know my fondness for Hillary, do not fear. Today's Democratic Party Primary Debate held in New York brought forth a feeble acceptance that Hillary is now in favor of lifting the cap for taxable income on upper income payers for social security funding--IYCTH (acronym will be explained below).

My Back Pages - 1% Want To Steal Your Social Security, Obama Is Helping Them

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 4:26pm

I am slowly migrating the content which I created over at the Great Orange Satan and some other websites here to C99.

This article is interesting now because we are coming close to the last budget cycle of the Obama presidency, his last chance to arrange a "Grand Bargain" to ingratiate himself to the 1 percenters that will pay for his Presidential library and line his pockets in his Post-Presidential earning years.

The hypocrisy never ends

Submitted by NCTim on Sun, 04/19/2015 - 11:02am

Fox News host Chris Wallace told Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday that he wished that he could put him on the “psychiatrist couch” to find out why the 59-year-old bachelor had never been married.

Last week, a Washington Post profile of the South Carolina Republican noted that Graham had helped raise his sister after his parents died while he was in college.

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