I wish Bush had gotten his social security privitization plan passed
Yeah...that would have been great right before Wall Street destroyed the economy and got bailed out. You think your little private pension would have been bailed out? In 2008 private pension and 401k's lost
37% of their value.
Gramma'd be eatin' catfood for sure.
Remind me again who bailed out Wall Street (
both times)?
(Hint: it was a Democrat Congress and Senate)
It's your side of the aisle that creates
all of the problems (and yes - the Republicans are your side of the aisle - 90% of them are completely liberal). Then you guys cry the loudest about the problems you created.
Hank Paulson is a Democrat? Republicans LOATHE American working men and women. They have never done ANYTHING to help the middle class and poor.
There is an old axiom, two groups of people vote Republican: millionaires and suckers...you are the latter...
Hank Paulson, the Gold Sacks bankster/US Treasury Secretary, who deregulated the financial system, caused a world crisis that wrecked the prospects of foreign banks and governments, caused millions of Americans to lose retirement savings, homes, and jobs, and left taxpayers burdened with multi-trillions of dollars of new US debt, is still not in jail. He is writing in the New York Times urging that the mess he caused be fixed by taking away from working Americans the Social Security and Medicare for which they have paid in earmarked taxes all their working lives.
Wall StreetÂ’s approach to the poor has always been to drive them deeper into the ground.
As there is no money to be made from the poor, Wall Street fleeces them by yanking away their entitlements. It has always been thus. During the Reagan administration, Wall Street decided to boost the values of its bond and stock portfolios by using Social Security revenues to lower budget deficits. Wall Street figured that lower deficits would mean lower interest rates and higher bond and stock prices.
Two Wall Street henchmen, Alan Greenspan and David Stockman, set up the Social Security raid in this way: The Carter administration had put Social Security in the black for the foreseeable future by establishing a schedule for future Social Security payroll tax increases. Greenspan and Stockman conspired to phase in the payroll tax increases earlier than was needed in order to gain surplus Social Security revenues that could be used to finance other government spending, thus reducing the budget deficit. They sold it to President Reagan as “putting Social Security on a sound basis.”
Along the way Americans were told that the surplus revenues were going into a special Social Security trust fund at the U.S. Treasury. But what is in the fund is Treasury IOUs for the spent revenues. When the “trust funds” are needed to pay Social Security benefits, the Treasury will have to sell more debt in order to redeem the IOUs.
Looting Social Security - PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Ronald Reagan.