Monday, February 16, 2009

Quash This Now!

There's a plot afoot, according to The Nation, to loot Social Security (and Medicare and Medicaid) to help pay for the stimulus. This is bad fiscal policy and bad politics. Call everyone you can think of in D.C. and put the kibosh on this before it even gets started.

The fiscal 'conservatives' (think surplus to trillion dollar deficit, and two wars, and torture, and.....) have lost the election(s), and need to lose the tactical battle too. NOW! This is just one more (hopefully vain) attempt to disassemble the New Deal, even as we're in the process of enacting the Newer Deal. Let's not shoot ourselves in the foot in the hopes that it'll make us run faster! Stop the insanity.

(Channeling my inner Susan Powter (no one under 4o will get that!))

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