{"id":11928,"date":"2014-01-01T00:33:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T08:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2014-01-01T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T08:33:17","slug":"expand-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/expand-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Expand Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Social Security passed under FDR, Republicans have been trying to change it.  For them it\u2019s a painful thing to see the money folks have paid in over the years returned to the beneficiaries.  Republicans want it to become a vehicle to transfer that wealth from the beneficiaries to billionaires and corporate criminals.  Here is an article from a wonderful progressive.  I\u2019ll say who at the end.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0101socialsecurity\"For a generation now, working families have been squeezed by stagnant wages and rising costs for housing, health care, and college. Even as families have cut back on expenses for things like food, clothing, furniture, and appliances, it hasn’t always been enough; many have been forced to take on more and more debt just to pay for necessities.<\/p>\n

One major consequence of these increasing pressures on working people is that the dream of a secure retirement is slowly slipping away. Families haven’t been able to save as much as they used to, and only 18 percent of private-sector workers have defined benefit pensions today compared with 35 percent two decades ago. Forty-four million workers have no workplace retirement savings plan\u2026<\/p>\n

…Social Security isn’t the answer to all of our retirement problems. We need to find ways to tackle the financial squeeze that is crushing our families. We need to help families start saving again. We need to make sure that more workers have access to better pensions. But in the meantime, so long as these problems continue to exist and so long as we are in the midst of a real and growing retirement crisis — a crisis that is shaking the foundations of what was once a vibrant and secure middle class — the absolute last thing we should be doing is talking about cutting back on Social Security. The absolute last thing we should do in 2013 – at the very moment that Social Security has become the principal lifeline for millions of our seniors — is allow the program to begin to be dismantled inch by inch.<\/p>\n

The decisions we make about Social Security benefits are not just about math. At their core, these decisions are about our values. I believe we must honor our promises, make good on a system that millions of people paid into faithfully throughout their working years, and support the right of every person to retire with dignity and that means protecting and expanding Social Security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I can assure you that my Social Security benefits have not kept pace with what it costs me to live, so I fully agree with this author.  And who is it with such expertise?  She\u2019s also an expert on Bought Bitch Mitch!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Ever since Social Security passed under FDR, Republicans have been trying to change it.  For them it\u2019s a painful thing to see the money folks have paid in over the years returned to the beneficiaries.  Republicans want it to become a vehicle to transfer that wealth from the beneficiaries to billionaires and corporate criminals.  Here […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}