Anybody who was having trouble believing Obama, like so many DLC DINO's, is anything but a Manchurian candidate, placed by and working for forward thinking movement conservatives to help destroy the Democratic Party from within, should have less trouble believing the truth now that Obama has fired his first salvo in his campaign to destroy Social Security.
He started preparing the ground by appointing known Social Security haters like Alan Simpson and others to his deficit commission, so as to further plant in American minds the idea that Social Security is a program in crisis and needs to be cut to help eliminate federal deficits, but the first true damage will come from the Obama/McConnell plan to slash the payroll tax and starve Social Security of funds.
From Ryan Grim's piece over at HuffPost
Democrats have never allowed the rate to be cut, even temporarily, in the history of the program, because payroll taxes feed the Social Security trust fund and create the political base of support for the program, said Nancy Altman, author of "The Battle For Social Security", a history of the program, and head of the advocacy group Social Security Works. Republicans have won a long-sought victory, even as President Obama hails it as a win for his party.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, echoed Mikulski's concern. "On the surface, the payroll tax reduction of two percent is attractive, but when you get past the surface, it's deeply disturbing. Because what it means is we'll replace the loss of money from Social Security with general fund money, but in the past Social Security has been raided to help fund general fund programs. So how long will it be before somebody says Social Security is not sustainable and we need to cut the program?" he said. "I'm afraid we are feeding into a larger narrative that goes toward eliminating Social Security."
Lamar Alexander, the Senate's number-three Republican, also said that reform of Social Security should be tied to moving that tax rate back up. "My personal hope is that it doesn't become permanent unless we deal with a way to make Social Security solvent over the long term," he told HuffPost. "You have to remember, the payroll tax funds Social Security and I like the idea of a lower payroll tax contribution, but we've got to make sure Social Security is solvent, which we should be doing this next year as the first order of business." The way to make the program "solvent" and keep taxes low, of course, is to reduce benefits.
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who competes with the GOP in his zeal for reforming Social Security, welcomes the cut. "I strongly support a payroll tax holiday because Congressional Budget Office has told us it is the second most powerful thing we can do after extending unemployment insurance to help with job creation," he said.
Conrad said that Congress will soon have the opportunity to take drastic deficit reduction measures in a few months when the body is required to raise the debt ceiling. "We still have that responsibility, and that opportunity, and that's got to be the next shoe that drops here," he said.
Obama and his DLC puke fellow travelers know exactly what they are doing here. They are laying the groundwork for the eventual destruction of Social Security and are no doubt laughing their asses off at the stupid liberals and DFH's.
And nothing is going to stop this particular freight train.
Goodbye Democratic Party, I said goodbye to you a while back, but soon you'll just be flat out dead...