On Dec 31 2012, 12:22*pm, Old Pif wrote:
On Dec 31, 12:49*pm, Nickname unavailable

wrote:

*nor should they means test the programs. that is a backdoor to
slashing benefits,

That what I am afraid this is.

The Wall Street hyenas are sniffing every corner for some extra cash
that is still left in this country and they just can't stay calm
looking at Social Security fund. People must be vigilant and don't let
them steal their life savings.

FDR and his advisers crafted s.s. to be a large pool of money that
"CONSERVATIVES" could not raid in a economic emergency brought on by
"CONSERVATIVE" extremism. that large pool of money goes directly into
the real economy, as keynes/galbraith advised the money should go.
that large pool of money that "THE CONSERVATIVES" cannot touch, is
keeping the economy moving, barely, but moving.