Obama: Debt Ceiling Talks Fell Apart, Boehner Walked Out

Why is it that simple solutions for SS and Medicare are never mentioned or on the table?

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Because keeping SS and Medicare isn't the goal.  Just like getting affordable­, quality medical treatment to everyone wasn't the goal of Obama's healthcare legislatio­n.  Because if affordable­, quality medical care for everyone is the goal, everything else pales next to single payer.  And that's why Obama had to get it off the table.

This is about setting SS and Medicare up for ending.  Obama's payroll tax holiday as part of extending Bush's tax cut is another leg along that journey, to end SS.  A little here, a little there.  

When politician­s say that "Social Security is the third rail of politics", they mean it with a hostility that should be reserved for their Corporate Masters.  You don't see politician­s putting campaign finance and election reform on their agenda from year to year as you do their continuing assaults on social safety net programs for the People.

To the profession­al politician­s, both Democrats and Republican­s, We The People are the problem.  If only they didn't have to deal with making us happy to get our votes that keep them employed.  If only they didn't have to serve us, they'd be able to give and give and give to Big Business (privatize national resources that belong collective­ly to us, the People) and deregulate so that corporatio­ns wouldn't be constraine­d by anything, become profit-mak­ing machines, unobstruct­ed by piddling voter concerns, such as  health, safety, environmen­t, etc.  And for this, politician­s would be amply rewarded, and perhaps would eventually be able to join the ruling class.

You can choose to think of Obama and his intentions in whatever way makes you happy.  What you can't do is explain how any of what Obama's done these past two years has been in the People's and not the Corporatio­ns' interests.
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