Senator Rand Paul was front and center on FOX News Wednesday morning announcing plans to attack Social Security. There is a little bit of tongue twisting propaganda that we are going to straighten out today. Rand Paul’s and John Boehner’s crews are expounding that they will not raise taxes and in fact are going to cut taxes further for the rich corporations. Here is the truth. When the cuts in Social Security and Medicare are made the elderly are going to have to go to their retirement accounts to make up the shortfalls. That is a tax on retirement accounts.
Rand Paul says he wants to cut food stamps. I know nobody gives a damn about the poor so let’s look at it from a different angel. Families in our military saw an increase in the need for food stamps from $24.9 million in 2007 to $73 million in 2010 and that is just what was spent in commissaries. Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Supporters – They are Not Going to Give, They are Going to Take More”