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oxdown.firedoglake.com - 2/25/2009
Oxdown Gazette » Video: How Social Security “Reform” Was Used to Launder $1.7 TRILLION into Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
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[The date on the video is January 25, 2008] David Cay Johnston explains to Lou Dobbs how Alan Greenspan convinced Congress to use Social Security "Reform" to force Americans to overpay into the system with which they later used to transfer $1.7 Trillion dollars from the middle-class to the ...
oxdown.firedoglake.com - 2/20/2009
Oxdown Gazette » When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains
— oxdown.firedoglake.com — But the second view is voiced less often – except by generals in private. That is because a depressing uniformity of outlook prevails among politicians in the two major parties, namely that a critical view of what is happening in Afghanistan might ... (more) Oxdown Gazette » When you’re ...

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Social Security “Reform”: Are They in It for the Money?
firedoglake.com - 2/24/2009
Social Security “Reform”: Are They in It for the Money?
— firedoglake.com — Let's cut to the chase here. Social Security doesn't need a fix to make it keep helping seniors, even according to the very conservative estimates of the Social Security trustees, which state that Social Security: Will take in more money than it ... (more) Social Security “Reform”: Are They in It for the Money?

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Is “Social Security” Reform The Price For Health Care?
firedoglake.com - 2/25/2009
Is “Social Security” Reform The Price For Health Care?
— firedoglake.com — Jane talks to Shuster about SS, and the possibility that it may be offered up to Republicans as the price for Obama's health care plan. (more) Is “Social Security” Reform The Price For Health Care?

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Corrente:  David Cay Johnston on transfer of SocSec tax increase to the uberwealthy/ Email to Obama!

Suburban Guerrilla:  How Social Security “Reform” Was Used to Launder $1.7 Trillion into Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

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David Cay Johnston on transfer of SocSec tax increase to the uberwealthy/ Email to Obama!
Corrente — ... David Cay Johnston appeared on Lou Dobbs last year, January 25, 2008, to explain how the Greenspan Commission "pay ahead" increase in SocSec taxes did not go into paying off the deficit or into a SocSec 'lockbox," but into tax cuts for the uberwealthy. ...

How Social Security “Reform” Was Used to Launder $1.7 Trillion into Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
Suburban Guerrilla — From Oxdown Gazette (h/t Corrente), David Cay Johnston on Lou Dobbs:

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