social security attacked on first day (unemployment, Congress, Obama, biased)

[Floorist]

On Day One, the new Congress launches an attack on Social Security - LA Times

[Opin_Yunated]

Republicans have been trying to bring down Social Security for decades.

Big business hates Social Security. The elderly aren't cheap labor and take up tax money. Big business wants the elderly to hurry up and die.

[daylux]

I stopped reading at the first sentence 'well that didn't take long' as I figured it was a biased article.

[swagger]

It's the L.A. Times. Of course it's a biased article. Heck, the headline alone is enough to tell you that.

[HappyTexan]

It's about SSDI, not SS.

And the SSDI program is RAMPANT with fraud with so many people seeking this to tide them over .
Yes those on SSDI should get 20% cuts. Let them go look for a job instead.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by Opin_Yunated

Republicans have been trying to bring down Social Security for decades.

Big business hates Social Security. The elderly aren't cheap labor and take up tax money. Big business wants the elderly to hurry up and die.

Only they are not going after SS. Maybe you should read the story and not go by the headline.
If anything they are trying to preserve SS monies.

[jmking]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

It's about SSDI, not SS.

And the SSDI program is RAMPANT with fraud with so many people seeking this to tide them over .
Yes those on SSDI should get 20% cuts. Let them go look for a job instead.

You are wrong on this. It is SS that is easier to acquire. SS is welfare, SSDI is Social Security Disability Income in which the worker pays for and can lose if they stop working for X amount of years. It is hard to qualify for SSDI unless you have a verifiable terminal condition, was a recent worker. I've seen first hand how difficult it is for a working disable, very ill person to qualify for SSDI. Not easy in the slightest and for most can take years to acquire.

[bUU]

But it is a hallmark of right-wing perspective to be aggressively callous toward those most vulnerable in society, so the rhetoric is to be expected.

[HappyTexan]

It's a noted fact that applications for SSDI spike when we have recessions and increased unemployment.
Relaxing the definition of disability has also helped millions more get on the rolls.

[aplcr0331]

Remember when people would start threads complaining loudly about how horrible Obama is and whatever he was doing was the most horrible thing on the planet and we're all devolving into socialism? Remeber those? Remember how gobstruck you were with the stupidity in those posts (me too)?

This? Same thing.