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[questionmark]

LA Times said:

There's good news from the front in one of our internecine economic and political battles: the war between the generations.

The news is that the younger generation is beginning to see through the propaganda.

For years now, efforts to set young against old have been linchpins in campaigns to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits and turn those programs over to the private sector. The basic tactic is to portray those programs as giveaways to undeserving seniors that rip off the young; the goal is to turn the ostensibly dispossessed young into an effective political counterweight to reform-resistant elderly.

"Generational conflict messaging is incredibly potent right now," observes Alex Lawson, 32, executive director of the Washington advocacy group Social Security Works. The time is ripe, he indicated, for young activists to push back against this narrative.

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hmmm.... 'nuther lost political battle?

[Hilander]

Why do some rich work so hard to brainwash the young.  What will be in it for them?

People pay into social security their whole life, it should stay the way it is, run by the government.

[Rafterman]

Obama and the Democrats must be really disappointed.

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Rafterman, on 07 July 2012 - 03:30 PM, said:

Obama and the Democrats must be really disappointed.

Unless my brain power fails me it is the Tea Partiers and some Ron Paul fans who want to abolish Social Security. But you can blame it on whomever you want.

[Rafterman]

questionmark, on 07 July 2012 - 04:47 PM, said:

Unless my brain power fails me it is the Tea Partiers and some Ron Paul fans who want to abolish Social Security. But you can blame it on whomever you want.

Which party guttted $500 billion out of Medicare when Obamacare was passed?

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Rafterman, on 07 July 2012 - 09:53 PM, said:

Which party guttted $500 billion out of Medicare when Obamacare was passed?

I thought it very instructive that this plan would take from a system paid into by seniors for their whole working life and give it to immigrants and others who've invested nothing into the system just for potential votes.

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Rafterman, on 07 July 2012 - 09:53 PM, said:

Which party guttted $500 billion out of Medicare when Obamacare was passed?

Does any senior get anything less than before by that?