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Millenials, Gen-X: Guinta to Steal Your Social Security

by: Dean Barker

Thu Oct 21, 2010 at 06:05:48 AM EDT
I've said this before in a general sense. And the continuing scandal over Frank Guinta's refusal to prove that $355,000 of his campaign money came from him is unfairly blocking this "hair-on-fire" issue from getting the traction it deserves.

But let's be clear.  A Congress with a Frank Guinta in it is one step closer to two generations of workers getting the reward of their Social Security, to which system they have been contributing for years, stolen from them:

For two decades I've been paying into the system for those older than me.

Frank doesn't want his kids or anyone else's kids to do the same for me.  He doesn't even want them to know what Social Security is.

When pressed by Carol Shea-Porter at the debate on how he was going to do this while at the same time honoring the commitment to those already in the system, he was either too ignorant or too dishonest to answer outside of his non-answering talking points.

This is a huge deal. Frank Guinta might be able to rely on hundreds of thousands of mystery money dollars to get him through retirement, but you and I and regular law-abiding folks don't have access to those kinds of magical bank accounts.

Do you have friends and neighbors who are Millenials or Ge X-ers in the first district?  Or others who care about them?  Because they need to know ASAP.
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Not pulling any punches. (0.00 / 0)
Also, technically a great use of the visual and aural capabilities of the medium.
Social Security is the foundation (0.00 / 0)
of American's retirement security.  Putting that money into the stock market, along with the 401(k)s that are already in there, would lead to a large drop in benefits.

Is that Frank Guinta's plan?  I'm not voting to do that to MY kids!

That's a message that deserves to go viral. (0.00 / 0)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
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The other great thing about privatization... (0.00 / 0)
.. would be all the stock market novices shopping for investments. No wonder the financial services industry would really like this to happen.

"Making trouble today for a better tomorrow" http://BetsyDevine.com/blog
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Anyone not receiving Social Security (0.00 / 0)
Guinta has said the usual Republican gibberish about not changing social security for anyone "already in the system", which means anyone already receiving social security. So anyone in their 40's and 50's, people who have been contributing to this pension plan for 20, 30, even 40 years, are looking at significant changes to or even evisceration of the social security system.

Welcome to age 70 retirement and the transformation of the system to a means testing welfare program like medicaid.    



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

It also means that any women who actually (0.00 / 0)
stayed at home to raise a family and provide moral support to the spouse is out of luck should he happen to get his "heavenly reward" before her.

Look, the conservathieves are basically anti-women and anti-children, regardless of ethnic origin.  They are self-centered males, who celebrate a few token females, not unlike the glorification to which Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland were subjected in earlier decades.  The regime to which the "studio system" in Hollywood subjected movie "stars" really is the antecedent of what the PR crowd in Wallywood on the Potomac is trying to replicate in the political arena across the land.

Potential public officials are being marketed like soda pop.  And then we'll blame the mothers when chronic conditions like hypertension and diabetes make them lazy.  Oh, and Michelle Obama is a hazard because she thinks people should eat real food.  

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That comment about his kids in the ad... (4.00 / 1)
... is from a long rambling statement Guinta made at a May 2010 event for Republican primary candidates hosted by the Rochester 912 and posted online by Granite Grok here: http://granitegrok.com/blog/20...

Guinta gets the mike about 6:52 into the tape and says:

"Let's not forget that this [Social Security] is something the government created. And now we're trying to have a government solution to a problem government created. Government's the problem here, ladies and gentlemen. When Social Security was created, you didn't have the wealth of private sector solutions for lifetime savings that you have today. We have to honor the obligations that have been made to those who are reliant on the federal government - older generations. But future generations should seek different private sector solutions and have personal responsibility start to lead the way. My kids are 6 and 5. They shouldn't know what Social Security is! You want to get down this debt and deficit? 65% of our budget is entitlements. We're going to have to make tough decisions as members of Congress..." [and then more about the deficit, etc.]


"Making trouble today for a better tomorrow" http://BetsyDevine.com/blog
Betsy! (0.00 / 0)
Nice to see you back here.

birch, finch, beech
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