Why The GOP Plots to Steal Your Social Security
OPS_admin | May 22, 2010 | Comments 0
Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
If Social Security were not working, if Social Security were not solvent, Wall St ‘fat cats’ would not be scheming to steal it! Social Security is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success.
GOP supporters of the big banksters propose that Social Security be ‘privatized’, a code word for: “let’s let the big banksters play monopoly with that money. Let’s export that money, squirrel it away in offshore bank accounts where working folk will never see it or benefit from it!”
Like monies blow up and otherwise ‘wasted’ in war, monies tagged ‘social security’ will be secured for speculative or destructive use by the very, very rich, the only people to have benefited from ruinous wars of aggression against Iraq, et al. Should this come to pass, not a cent of that money will go toward the creation of a single job in the U.S.
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