Jane Hamsher: Revolt of the Wonks – Former Obama Advisors Want To Know What’s Happening on His Cut Social Securi .. er .. Deficit Commission
There’s mounting and irrefutable evidence that Obama and the Dems are angling to cut/privatize social security, as revealed by two former Obama advisors Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson. They write (in an article entitled “Has Obama created a Social Security ‘death panel’?) that Nixon holdover, anti-social security zealot, and billionaire, Peter G. Peterson, is supplying staff to Obama’s “Deficit Commission” (Hamsher calls it the “Catfood Commission”) .. Jane writes …
Peterson plays a huge role in the world that shapes the thinking that drives the commission. Bill Clinton simply gushed about him at Peterson’s own recent fiscal summit. As long as Peterson is allowed to hide in the shadows and pull the strings, the choices that the Commission will make will come from a very small menu. Defense cuts will not be a factor. They won’t be talking about the trillion dollars they could save over the next decade simply by expanding Medicare to cover businesses. They’re only going to ask the questions that drive them to the same answer: cut Social Security
just soooo glad a Democrat is in the WH – mab .. read more
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