Category: Deficit Commission

Cut Medicare and Social Security Club is back again – this time pointing its daggers at Donald Trump

~ Fred Donaldson ~ 8 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH69lgidOhM The Committee for a Responsible Budget (CFRB) is at it again in their quest to cut Social Security and Medicare. Cloaked behind a lace curtain of "bipartisan" concern, the committee includes impotent deficit hawks, sharks and other carnivores of ill repute. Of course, at the top of the list is Pete Peterson, a very, … Continue reading Cut Medicare and Social Security Club is back again – this time pointing its daggers at Donald Trump

Paris is burning! Deficit Commission looks for matches.

~ Fred Donaldson ~ Leave a comment

Paris is burning and a Democrat on President Obama’s deficit commission predicted recently that the bipartisan panel would come up with recommendations to "shore up" (destroy) Social Security. “The stars are aligned,’’ said Alice Rivlin, a former budget director under President Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “I do expect that … Continue reading Paris is burning! Deficit Commission looks for matches.