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Divernan

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Sat Jul-09-11 04:13 PM
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75. You have to face political reality.

There is nothing the Republican leadership & their corporate overlords want more than gutting SS/Medicare/Medicaid. W announced it as his number one goal for his second term, and what stopped him were the Democrats in Congress.

The Republicans will quickly snap up any offer Obama makes which will significantly impair SS/M/M. For show, they will trade off some future tax increases, knowing that they can always pass legislation to cancel those increases. But once SS/M/M programs have been stripped and gutted, it would be nigh impossible to resuscitate them.

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