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Paul Krugman on Social Security:

...Social Security is a government program that works, a demonstration that a modest amount of taxing and spending can make people's lives better and more secure. And that's why the right wants to destroy it.

He also identifies the specific battle in the class warfare that's being waged by the right today as having its roots a couple of decades ago. If, as Republican operatives would like us to believe, the Social Security trust fund isn't an entity indepedent of the federal government, then "...[the] Greenspan-sponsored tax increase in the 1980's was nothing but an exercise in class warfare: taxes on working-class Americans went up, taxes on the affluent went down, and the workers have nothing to show for their sacrifice."

Typical GOP strategy: profit by getting someone else to sacrifice. Does that strategy sound familiar to anyone serving in Iraq? Vietnam veterans who couldn't get into the Texas Air National Guard? Uninsured minimum-wage employees? Blue States that pay the expenses of the Red States?

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