SIMPSON & BOWLES HAVE STARTED THE “MOMENT OF TRUTH PROJECT” AND HAVE ENLISTED DEMOCRATIC SENATORS SUCH AS RICHARD DURBIN, MARK WARNER AND CLAIRE McCASKILL IN THEIR WAR ON THE WORKING PEOPLE

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In their relentless attack on the working people, the team of Simpson & Bowles – co-chairs of President Obama’s deficit reduction commission – have formed a new foundation for spreading anti-Social Security propaganda.  Their newly formed Moment of Truth Project is backed – surprise, surprise – by the money of Peter G. Peterson through the Orwellian-entitled Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The usual propaganda and mistruths about Social Security are typically penned for Peterson and his operatives by Ms Maya MacGuineas.  Ms MacGuineas has made the rounds of the usual elitist Washington think tanks (e.g. Brookings Institution) doing the bidding of the power elite and is now acting as the director of the Committee for a Responsible Budget.  She has a set repertoire of lies about Social Security, which are: (1) Social Security is broken due to an aging population, (2) Medicare & Social Security are, in sum and substance, the same program known as “entitlements, and(3) these entitlements must be reformed – by which she means benefit cuts are necessary.

Maya Macguineas

It is hard to believe that Democratic senators Claire McCaskill, Mark Warner, and Richard Durbin have joined this right-wing crusade.  Instead of ending the crony capitalism that characterizes Medicare (not Social Security) and raising taxes to insure long-term stability of Social Security (past 2037), these faux-Democrats are pushing for an increase in the retirement age and a cut in benefits.  Unbelievable!  Why would rank and file Democrats put up with that?  

Any of my fellow progressives in Illinois, Virginia, and Missouri reading this should be on the phone to the offices of Durbin, Warner, and McCaskill.  Let these Democrats know that their pleas for support and votes in the next election may go unheeded.  Warner is immensely wealthy, which makes his efforts to impoverish the elderly even more disgusting.