Republicans moving in wrong direction
It is not surprising that Republican pols - for Republican, read Big Business - want to phase out Social Security (and Medicare and unemployment compensation and minimum wage) and every/any social or financial benefit that aids the average "working stiff" of the nation.
Imagine if the social and financial programs were eliminated - oh yeah, don't forget the inane idiocy of the George Bush effort to put Social Security funds into the stock market! - from the public well-being and financial safety net. Think how desperate so many people would be without them. Think how low businesses could force wages to go, how easily they could do away with maternity leave and such, and pensions and 401(k)s and IRAs and any other benefit accruing to people who work for wages.
No, not surprising at all; scary, yes, and frightening, for sure, and daunting and dreadful, to say the least. But the most amazing thought is that the Republican pols will advance this thought without shame, publicly crying for "lower deficits" and "lower (or no) taxes" and "less government" and "deregulation" and, in short, no control whatever over what they aim for, which is, a poorer, less-educated, less self-reliant public - which would amount to a population of "working poor."
Frank Sears
Buffalo Grove