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I have long been wondering why such deep antagonism against Social Security exists among so many prominent Now under the two-faced deceiver in Other than malice and evil, why this effort The answer arises when we grasp Two reasons seem likely to First, the corporatist hacks that If George Bush had gotten his Neoliberals are practitioners of Neoliberalism’s roots lie in the Major figures The measurements He explained that <\/span>“I’ve always though that Jose Lutzenburger Brazil’s Secretary of the Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane… Lutzenberger was right.<\/p>\n Another believer, Alan Simpson Sad to say, Barack Obama, Mr. No I A Second Reason<\/b><\/p>\n There is a second reason for America is shifting from a white But today white Europeans will soon Social Security is blamed by some The argument for abolishing social Of course this reasoning cannot be <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have long been wondering why such deep antagonism against Social Security exists among so many prominent people in this country. Under George Bush while Medicare suffered very genuine financial perils Republican politicians and conservative leaders never mentioned its problems all the while whining incessantly that we should “privatize” Social Security because of it’s quite…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"yoast_head":"\n
\npeople in this country. <\/span>Under
\nGeorge Bush while Medicare suffered very genuine financial perils Republican
\npoliticians and conservative leaders never mentioned its problems all the while
\nwhining incessantly that we should “privatize” Social Security because of it’s
\nquite minor financial difficulties<\/a>. <\/span>If nothing changes Social Security will
\nbe able to pay full benefits until 2039, and changes needed to sustain it
\nindefinitely <\/a>are small. <\/p>\n
\nthe White House we see a commission supposedly established to study our
\nfinancial problems, meeting in secret, with major participants demonstrably
\nboth fanatically and ignorantly opposed to Social Security, and due to make its
\n‘report’ just after the November elections. <\/span>It’s real purpose is becoming very clear to all not blinded
\nby their trust<\/a>. <\/span>Obama’s “eleven dimensional chess” is
\nplayed against us and not the Sauronic right.<\/p>\n
\nto attack Social Security by so many Republican and Democratic leaders? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\nthat America today is in increasing thrall to two nasty groups standing in
\ndirect opposition to our founding principles: corporatists and the ‘religious’
\nand Tea Bagger right. <\/span>The first
\ndominates the Democrats and Republicans alike, but in the GOP is challenged by
\nthe second. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nme. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
\ndominate both parties today have a deep commitment<\/a> to the mantra that government cannot do anything right for the American
\npeople. <\/span>When in power they do what
\nthey can to prove this argument.
\n<\/span>Social Security works, and so is a standing rebuttal to their
\nvision. <\/span>Therefore it must be
\ndestroyed. <\/span><\/p>\n
\n“privatization” passed, millions of older Americans would have been even more
\ndevastated by the stock market crash than they were. <\/span>Significantly, this apparently does not bother these people
\nin the slightest. <\/span>We are seeing
\nthe results of a quasi-religious secular fanaticism called “neoliberalism<\/a>.” <\/p>\n
\nmarketolatry, a creed as simple-minded and free from evidence as any Fundamentalism. <\/span>It differs from libertarianism in that
\nthey have no problem seeking government privileges for corporations. <\/span>In fact they rely on it. <\/span><\/p>\n
\ndemise of “Great Society” liberalism under President Carter and the conclusion
\nby many ‘serious thinkers’ of the time that if government could not fine-tune
\nour lives in everything, then it could do nothing and corporations could play
\nthat role. <\/span>Either way, governments
\nand markets are simply vehicles for their real goal, which is power over us all
\n“for our own good.” <\/span>This is also
\nwhy they generally like war so much: war is power.<\/p>\n
\nwithin this sect, such as Larry Summers<\/a>, are beyond reach of argument or evidence. <\/span>They are far worse men than one can easily grasp, as Summers
\ndemonstrated in 1991, while he was the World Bank’s chief economist when he argued<\/a> <\/p>\n
\nof the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings
\nfrom increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount
\nof health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest
\ncost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic
\nlogic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is
\nimpeccable and we should face up to that.<\/p>\n
\nunder-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air
\nquality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico
\nCity.” <\/p>\n
\nEnvironment wrote Summers<\/a> <\/p>\n\n
\nYour thoughts [provide] a concrete example of the unbelievable alienation,
\nreductionist thinking, social ruthlessness and the arrogant ignorance of many
\nconventional ‘economists’ concerning the nature of the world we live in… <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\ndemonstrates it also helps to be beyond reason or compassion. <\/span>Long an opponent of Social Securit<\/a>y, <\/span>Simpson has gone farther to blame veterans for our financial
\ndifficulties, because veteran benefits are another area where government
\nactually works for the most part, and so must be destroyed<\/a>. <\/p>\n
\nCan’t, underlines this position by refusing to fire him. <\/span>Some will say: trust Obama. The proper
\nanswer is since when has trusting him paid off? <\/span>He has proven a better manager than Bush for serving
\ncorporations and banks, not for serving the American people.<\/p>\n
\nantagonism to Social Security, one that speaks more to the heated imaginations
\nof the “christian” right and Tea Baggers than to the soulless manipulators of
\ncorporate power. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nWestern European to an ethnically mixed nation. <\/span>Hawaii is more our future in this regard than is New
\nHampshire. <\/span>This is part of a long
\nprocess that began when Western Europeans of many ethnicities became defined as
\n“Americans.” <\/span>Hardly anyone knows
\nthat one of the wisest and most tolerant people of his time, Benjamin Franklin,
\nonce worried that Germans were of the wrong complexion and practiced the wrong
\ncustoms to ever be fully assimilated into our culture!<\/p>\n
\nno longer be a majority in the US, as they are no longer a majority in several
\nstates. <\/span>This brings out all the
\npoison lurking at the heart of the nativist soul, as we see in Arizona in
\nparticular.<\/p>\n
\n‘conservatives’ for falling white birth rates<\/a>. <\/span>The evidence does not support
\nthis argument as the lowest birth rates in Europe are in traditional societies
\nsuch as Italy, and far higher rates, though still falling, exist in
\nScandinavia<\/a>. The crucial factor in maintaining birth rates is making it possible for women
\nto both work and have families, which requires moderating the forces of a pure
\nmarket and facilitating women’s getting good jobs. <\/span>Neither are supported by the right. Better to abolish Social
\nsecurity.<\/p>\n
\nSecurity from this perspective is that old people no longer need children to
\nkeep them out of poverty, for Social Security provides the margin of safety for
\nmany. <\/span>But if they had no margin of
\nsafety then they would have to breed and the “white race” would receive a
\ndemographic boost because among all Americans whites have the smallest
\nfamilies. As a side effect it would supposedly strengthen “the family” by
\nremoving other ways of taking care of oneself when old.<\/p>\n
\ndiscussed in public. <\/span>Deliberately
\nworsening the conditions of all American as they age in order to re-inflate the
\n“white race’ is not a message that will go over well, even among most followers
\nof Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, let alone good Americans.<\/p>\n