A Democrat Wants To Cut Social Security?

By Colonel Rainsborough  

Just today, I read a story about a clueless California Republican who declared that Social Security was a bad idea.  After laughing about how hopeless the Republicans have become, I read this:

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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., called on an audience of business and political elites earlier this week to respond to populist anger by lobbying harder for a deficit-reduction package that would reduce corporate tax rates and cut public retirement programs such as Social Security.

As the children would say, “DaFuq?”

Although a dominant populist sentiment is that the system is already rigged in favor of the rich, Warner suggested that the “business community” needs to get more involved in politics or face unpleasant repercussions.

“If you don’t think the frustration of Americans with our overall system, — not just our political system, but our business system, our tax code — is at the boiling point, then Katy bar the door!,” he said. “The walls that are gonna have to be built, may not be at borders, they may be around neighborhoods the way they are in many Third World countries around the world,” Warner warned.

The cure for corrupting corporate power is MORE corporate influence?  I am not making this up.  While the panelists acknowledged that the public is angry about inequality, the proposed cure is more inequality.

I especially like the idea that Warner anticipates that rich people will have to live in walled communities to protect themselves from angry, unwashed peasants.  Oh, wait…Most of them already do…

Wait, I think I misinterpreted his idea.  He wants to build the walls around OUR neighborhoods.  Palestine, after all, is such a successful community planning experiment.

Warner was speaking on Monday at the Milken Institute’s 2016 Global Conference. 

Yeah, that Milken — the guy who was convicted in 1990 of securities fraud and tax evasion.  Perhaps in the near future, there will be a conference named after Bernie Madoff.

Apparently, Sen. Warner was unhappy that the awful Simpson-Bowles “Grand Bargain”plan was not accepted.

The commission put together a plan that called for corporate tax reform focused on cutting the corporate tax rate and entitlement reform based on policies such as raising the Social Security retirement age. Obama never embraced the plan, but a group of lawmakers, including Warner, known as the “Gang of Six” put forth legislation that mirrored its recommendations.

“We’d have gotten 70 votes if the establishments on both sides had not shot down our effort,” Warner complained on Monday.

We would have gotten away with it if it had not been for those lousy…