Shame on the President shame on the Democrats

[sageofthpalouse]

Early this year Congress restored payroll taxes to finance the SSI and Medicare trust funds - savings accounts in effect, where a chunk of wages from your labor is diverted each payday to sit gathering interest. Decades later, you hope, it will be doled back as an “entitlement

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[carol_da_queen]

I hope you will post this on FB also...It will get a lot of good comments...maybe a flame or two. But I think you explain it well, and with passion.

[sageofthpalouse]

Dear Carol - the majority of voters oppose the cuts, but only a small minority understand that economic lies and a fake crisis have been manufactured to justify cutting. That means most voters just argue about what to cut and how much, instead of focusing on solving the real problems of unemployment and student debt

[carol_da_queen]

I think the charts...so visually powerful are the best for me.
Sadly so many folks hate 'math' and won't even really ponder or try to understand something with numbers....even very important ones.

[sageofthpalouse]

Numbers are pretty unintuitive: one, two, "many" ... and we're lost in the "many"

Macroeconomics also is rife with logic traps. Especially fallacies of composition ... maybe charts could show paradox of thrift, stuff like that? Hmmm.

I'm still convinced logic and facts are not the key ... it requires more like an epiphany for older people who have worked for their money.