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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 01:59 PM Aug 2013

Plutocrats' New Pitch: Let Us Rob You Now So You Can Plan Ahead for Poverty

http://www.alternet.org/economy/pete-peterson-and-social-security

Somehow, I’ve wound up on the mailing list for a group of oligarchs campaigning to swindle Americans out of their hard-earned retirement insurance. Hedge fund billionaire Pete Peterson, the budget buffoons Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, and the rest of their merry band of hustlers over at the hilariously named Committee for a Responsible Budget have asked me to consider their latest proposal.

So I thought I’d oblige them, what the heck.

Judging from the shrill headline in their mailing, these men (and a token woman or two) wish to sell me on the idea of “Social Security Reform and the Cost of Delay.”

The cost of delay? Boys, I hear you on that. Any delay in ripping me off must be very costly — for you.

(More at the link.)
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Plutocrats' New Pitch: Let Us Rob You Now So You Can Plan Ahead for Poverty (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 OP
These people are so fucking evil. And Obama is in bed with them. MotherPetrie Aug 2013 #1
They won't be happy until they have 75% of the economy and... Kalidurga Aug 2013 #2
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