[Marxism] A worthless piece of paper

[Greg McDonald]

Marvin Gandall wrote:

'The US ruling class could also use a sharp US downturn and rise in the
budget deficit to build support for its long awaited assault on Social
Security under the pretext that funding needed to be diverted to  
foster a
recovery during the "national emergency".'

During an appearance on one of the sunday morning, US TV talk shows,  
I think it was "face the nation", Obama brought up the old saw about  
the burden of social security and the impending fiscal crisis related  
to the retirement of the baby boomer generation.  Maybe you're right.  
The fact that Obama could ritually genuflect to the DC crowd, and  
show his serious intent to "take a tough line" on the issue, means at  
the very least that dumping the SSA is emerging as a campaign issue  
for both republicans and democrats. I don't know Hillary's position,  
but I imagine Edwards and Kucinich are probably both for keeping the  
SSA going.

Greg McD.