Plutocrats' New Pitch: Let Us Rob You Now So You Can Plan Ahead for Poverty | Alternet
"Pete Peterson & Co. kindly want to take your Social Security away to prevent you from imagining a dignified future."
Showing posts with label Plutocrats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plutocrats. Show all posts
7/31/13
Bombshell: Plutocrats Brazenly Collude to Hurt State Economies and Screw Working People | Alternet
Bombshell: Plutocrats Brazenly Collude to Hurt State Economies and Screw Working People | Alternet
"Illinois fatcats discuss plan to sabotage state bond ratings in scheme to destroy pensions."
"Illinois fatcats discuss plan to sabotage state bond ratings in scheme to destroy pensions."
2/19/13
Wall Street’s Misdeeds Cost Trillions, But It’s Main Street Who’s Getting Nickel-and-Dimed | Common Dreams
Wall Street’s Misdeeds Cost Trillions, But It’s Main Street Who’s Getting Nickel-and-Dimed | Common Dreams
"And as Washington argues about whether it should spend millions to save Main Street’s resiidents trillions, both parties are reportedly open to a budget agreement that would cut $130 billion in Social Security benefits for the elderly and disabled over the next ten years (according to White House estimates). In Washington that’s an acceptable “buy-partisan” solution.
"And as Washington argues about whether it should spend millions to save Main Street’s resiidents trillions, both parties are reportedly open to a budget agreement that would cut $130 billion in Social Security benefits for the elderly and disabled over the next ten years (according to White House estimates). In Washington that’s an acceptable “buy-partisan” solution.
But, especially for the Republicans, it isn’t acceptable to ask the bankers who cost Americans trillions of dollars – and walked away wealthy – to spend millions to prevent another trillion-dollar crisis."
1/17/13
Corporate CEO 'Extremists' Target Social Security, Medicare | Common Dreams
Corporate CEO 'Extremists' Target Social Security, Medicare | Common Dreams
"CEOs from America's largest corporations—including its biggest banks, retailers, and insurance companies who helped drive the country into the worst recession in nearly a century— are now calling on Congress to punish the nation's working class and society's most vulnerable by advocating major changes to Social Security and Medicare in a new lobbying push that critics say reveal the cruelty and selfish nature of the country's corporate class."
"CEOs from America's largest corporations—including its biggest banks, retailers, and insurance companies who helped drive the country into the worst recession in nearly a century— are now calling on Congress to punish the nation's working class and society's most vulnerable by advocating major changes to Social Security and Medicare in a new lobbying push that critics say reveal the cruelty and selfish nature of the country's corporate class."
How Extreme Is the Business Roundtable? Check Out Its Attack On the Elderly | Common Dreams
How Extreme Is the Business Roundtable? Check Out Its Attack On the Elderly | Common Dreams
"Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate governance so that they make far more than they’re worth.
Now, to make sure the milk and honey keeps flowing their way, they want to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits for the beleaguered American majority."
"Rich CEOs have used every tax loophole in the book to add to their own wealth, have been bailed out directly or indirectly by the American taxpayer, and have rigged corporate governance so that they make far more than they’re worth.
Now, to make sure the milk and honey keeps flowing their way, they want to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits for the beleaguered American majority."
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