[Edited Message Follows] Trump still has enough brain cells IMO to mean this as a strategic master-stroke--i.e., he's doing it on purpose. A lot of fifty-and-unders actually hate Social Security AND "boomers"--find SS demeaning and unworthy of the entrepreneurial spirit, don't think it will be there for them, and refuse to even consider stooping to fight for it--so there could be more support for this than you might think.
What's equally worrying to this old fart--forced into retirement at nearly 72 and naively counting on max SS in lieu of a base pension-is that Biden, who has been trying to cut Social Security for 40 years, will be "forced" to recant his recent change of heart on the subject, because, gosh, we can't cut funds for Our Nation's Defense and--note that Gov. Cuomo has been leading the charge on this last item--it simply isn't possible to raise taxes on the Hamptons billionaires. Not possible--Cuomo said he'd spent a whole day talking to those "folks" and a tax rise just wasn't doable. America might just get by with a 40-50% cut to the defense budget and 80% taxation on the highest incomes--ideally 99%. Neither will be touched. So what can a neoliberal slash? The Reagan/Clinton/Blair/Biden/Summers/Emanuel/Harris crowd only know one tune--savage austerity--and they will never stop singing it while breath is in their bodies and there are weaker people to trample. The only one out there with good ideas is Hawkins--you can forget about the People's Party--too little, too late, and AFAIK definitely fishy anyway. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#322): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/322 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76124461/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
