The Koch brothers' campaign to kill social security
The rightwing industrialists have spent millions funding opinion-forming propaganda to undermine a vital public service
by Robert Greenwald, guardian.co.uk -- June 22, 2011
Will you help Senator Sanders expose the Koch Echo Chamber?
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Documents and interviews unearthed in recent months by Brave New Foundation researchers illustrate a $28.4m Koch business that has manufactured 297 commentaries, 200 reports, 56 studies and six books distorting social security's effectiveness and purpose. Together, the publications reveal a vast cottage industry comprised of Koch brothers' spokespeople, front groups, thinktanks, academics and elected officials, which has built a self-sustaining echo chamber to transform fringe ideas into popular mainstream public policy arguments.
"The Koch brothers job is to do everything they can to dismember government in general," Senator Bernie Sanders says in this video. "If you can destroy social security, you will have gone a long way forward in that effort." [...]
Bernie Sanders describes the Koch-sponsored Talking Points for Social Security Disinformation, as follows:
1) That we need to Raise the Social Security Retirement Age.
2) That Social Security is going Bankrupt.
3) That Social Security needs to be Privatized to save it.
These are Untrue. These are Lies.
per Senator Bernie Sanders, and BraveNewFoundation films, and according to CBO Projections too.
Social Security is NOT going Broke -- far from it.
The threat that it is going broke, is only the well-funded Media Message that the Koch Brothers have spent untold millions on, in order to get you to grudgingly give up, your Right to a safe and Secure Retirement.
You paid into it. You earned it. Hands-off Congress.
When you get a chance, ask those Koch-sponsored SS fear-mongers, who signs their paychecks, OK? The American People expect no less.