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Saturday, April 01, 2023

[UPDATED] CNN titles an item, "Nikki Haley calls for changing retirement age for Americans who are now in their 20s." Give Nikki Haley and enema and she'd disappear.

 You don't sacrifice young people, those barely able to vote, and think older people will say, "Okay, my ox is not getting gored."
 

It does not work that way. Divide and conquer is so transparent that this woman cannot sell her sackfull. It will not work.

Solidarity is needed. From old to young, keep the faith. Here is Nikki's link:

 
"What you would do is, for those in their 20s coming into the system, we would change the retirement age so that it matches life expectancy," Haley said Thursday on Fox News.

When pressed for what specific new retirement age she supports, the former South Carolina governor said, "It's the new ones coming in. It's those in their 20s that are coming in. You're coming to them and you're saying, the game has changed. We're going to do this completely differently."

Fuck you, Nikki. 

Fuck FOX. Where will these Republicans let up? When everybody but billionaires are homeless and craving food stamps? 

Fuck you, Nikki. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

I have respect for people of all ages. 

Nikki, she's her own story.

Anyone voting for her is a doomed idiot.

End of the Haley part of the story. 

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UPDATE: Apart from Ms. Haley, The Hill days ago reported

As lawmakers approach a looming debt ceiling deadline, the fight over what to do about entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security has continued to play out across party lines.

Republicans have demanded commitments on spending cuts from Democrats in exchange for raising the debt limit but have said entitlement programs are not on the chopping block.

President Biden and Democrats have still sought to frame the GOP desire for spending slashes as a move to attack Medicare and Social Security. On the current trajectories, funding for Medicare is expected to hit a shortfall in 2028 with Social Security following in 2032.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid currently make up nearly half of the entire federal budget, with a total annual price tag of $2.7 trillion.

That "debt ceiling" game is as phony as South Carolina politicians, Haley, Scott and Graham. And Clyburn, list him with the others since honesty is necessary.

First, squeeze the obscene profiteering out of healthcare, Big Pharma, the private equity firms renting hospitals to bean counters - always bean counters on the hospital first floor where if you get past them you can see the good people, doctors and nurses on the upper floors who cope with bean counter squeezing and REIT rental maggots, but the actual care providers who deserve what they get because they work hard and have studied long, some facing incredible tuition debt.

Second, close every single red state military base. Then tax the wealthy to pay for the healthcare of the workers they exploit. Shrink the Pentagon budget as may be further needed. 

That gets it done.

End of story.

Wait - Shelve that entire "debt ceiling" pile. Phony is as phony does, and only a handful believe that posturing. As the saying has always been:

VOTE THE RASCALS OUT. 

THEY HAVE IT ALL. GIVE THEM A SOUND DOSE OF JOB INSECURITY TO GET THEIR MINDS RIGHT. IT WILL NOT BE EASY. THEY ARE TWO-PARTY ENTRENCHED. BUT BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE DONE IT CAN BE DONE.

Actual end of story.

___________UPDATE_________

Days after the initial post, LeMond:


If we had that level of street activity by our young, over attacks upon Social Security such as Ms. Haley's, perhaps Ms. Haley would change her braying.

We don't. She brays. But leave her empty handed when ballots get counted.

Anyone who thinks that simplistic stuff will destroy solidarity among all regular people need to see something very tangible shoved into their faces, where, eyes open, they lay off oppression of the young, and lay off any reliance upon divide and conquer expectations among those who should know solidarity is the only thing that might work.

May Ms. Haley end up jobless and destitute!