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Is the US Social Security BANKCRUPT?
Topic Started: Jun 22 2011, 05:30 PM (324 Views)
Leandrocles
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Is the US Social Security really bankcrupt?
or is it the BIGGEST LIE invented by the KOCH brothers?

Read what this article and video has to say:
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The Inner Secrets of the Right Wing Echo Chamber
By Don Hazen
Brave New Films has provided, with Bernie Sanders, a clear deconstruction of the origins and process of the conservative disinformation propaganda machine. It's scary.

If you have been paying attention to television, radio, newspapers, the Internet, various talk shows, including the batch on Sunday morning, you have heard two words repeated a lot; so often that there is actually the sound of an echo. Word one is collapse ... collapse ... collapse; word two is bankrupt... bankrupt ... bankrupt. Can you guess why these words are repeated over and over (and no, this is not about the Greek economy)?

Rather, these words are being used and reused to describe the persistent disinformation that, if successful, will impact millions of people, probably even you, who are reading this. Did you guess right? The first message is: "We must raise the retirement age or the economy will collapse." And two: "Social security is bankrupt."

These two statements have been repeated thousands of times in and on American media. Yet there is not one scintilla of evidence that either one of these statements is accurate. But they have lodged themselves into the mainstream of American thought, constantly repeated by corporate media, as if they are obvious truths.

How does this happen? Since the 1970's the conservatives in this country have developed a very powerful propaganda infrastructure, that is currently heavily funded by guess who? Right, the Koch brothers. It goes like this: large amounts of money a la Koch brothers are given to conservative think tanks where well-paid staffers develop position papers. The think tanks release the position papers pushing conservative ideas, then an army of publicists place the pundits from those very think tanks for media appearances to promote the ideas, repeating the talking points. The corporate media parrots these positions as if they're fact; conservative politicians (funded by the Kochs and other conservative donors) embrace and promote the same talking points, as if they're fact. This is the nature of the echo chamber. When it is fully operational, the same points are made in many media appearances, in every kind of media until the ideas become the conventional wisdom.

But you really need to watch how this works in action. Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films has produced a groundbreaking investigative piece, which focuses on the cottage industry, largely funded by the Kochs, whose sole purpose is to turn fringe ideas into mainstream policy arguments. In BNF's investigative work, they found documents and interviews that illustrate a vast industry of spokespeople, front groups, think tanks and elected officials, which have built a self-sustaining echo chamber.

The video “Echo Chamber” highlights the onslaught on Social Security as just one example. The Koch echo chamber on Social Security begins with think tanks like the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Reason Foundation, which owe their founding and achievements to Koch backing. These think tanks take their $28.4 million in Koch funding and produce more than 300 position papers distorting the purpose and effectiveness of Social Security.

And so it goes. But watch the video. It's well worth it. And short and digestible.


The Koch brothers are big contributors to Republicans and their causes. They also bankrolled the Tea Party movement.


What do Walmart, FOX News, and Koch Brothers have in common?

An important eight part video series that exposes the Koch Brothers' control over your job, your life, and your well-being is being produced as I post this. It's $40 billion of Koch money vs us!



The FACTS

1. Social Security belongs to you—the workers who contribute to it—not the politicians in Washington.

2. Social Security will never go bankrupt. Its major source of income comes from the contributions of workers and employers; as long as there are workers, Social Security will have income. Closing tax loopholes for wealthy individuals will increase the long term financial health of the program, and protect it for decades to come.

3. Raising the retirement age is a terrible idea and a large benefit cut. If you were claiming benefits as a 66 year-old retired worker and the full retirement age was changed from 66, where it is today, to 69 your benefits would be cut 20 percent. A typical benefit would drop from $14,000 a year to $11,200 a year.

4. Privatizing Social Security would be a disaster. Social Security is so valuable because it provides a guaranteed benefit. Privatizing Social Security would remove this guarantee and have people gamble their retirement savings in the casinos of Wall Street. If the recent financial crisis taught us anything, Wall Street is the last place where our money is safe.

For more information, check out the Strengthen Social Security Campaign.
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Angel Ito
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Lee Fang is a brilliant kid. Watch these:

Front Groups & Covert Funding by Koch Brothers & "Unbiased" Blogger Works for Them - Lee Fang



Uncloaking the Koch Brothers, Tea Party

There is a group of billionaires gathered in the California desert trying to figure out ways to repeal healthcare, defeat president Obama and pretty much give corporations more influence in America's government. As RT's Ramon Galindo shows us, angry Americans are trying to fight back against the Koch's secretive influence.




Often times, the Koch brothers apologists, Libertarians, Repukelicans and Tea-Baggers cite George Soros, who support the Democrats, to blunt criticisms on the Koch brothers. The fact is Soros is worth $3 billion and donates way more money to philanthropy than to politics whereas the Koch brothers are worth $36 billion and spend billions on conservative pro-corporate issues.

Who would have thought that the day would come when 2 brothers who are multi-billionaires, have targeted the many and most of the people in this country? This is one time I will use the word 'evil.' This has nothing to do with the "leftist propaganda" and everything to do with anti-American criminal scumbags. Two old white greedy rich bastards! You should ask your self why they are sooo involved in politics.
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Pepe Smythe
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More on the Koch brothers:



I plan to boycott Home Depot, Amway, will not watch or buy any product or products attached to these thieves. I stand in solidarity with the American workers. Companies owned by the Koch brothers, should you feel like boycotting­ are:

1. Georgia-Pacific paper and pulp company, maker of "Brawny" paper towels, "Angel Soft" toilet paper, "Mardi Gras" napkins and towels, "Quilted Northern" toilet paper and paper towels, "Dixie" paper plates, bowls, napkins and cups, "Sparkle" paper towels, and "Vanity Fair" paper napkins, bowls, plates and tablecloths. The company’s leading European brands include Lotus, Colhogar, Delica, Tenderly and the Demak'Up brand of facial cleansing products. The Atlanta-based company has operations in 27 states.

2. Invista, a polymer and fibers company that makes "Stainmaster" carpet, and "Lycra" fiber, among other products.

3. Koch Pipeline Company LP, which owns and operates 4,000 miles of pipeline used to transport oil, natural gas liquids and chemicals. Its pipelines are located across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Alberta, Canada. The firm operates offices in Wichita, Kansas, St. Paul, Minnesota and Corpus Christi, Texas.

4. Flint Hill Resources LP, is a major refining and chemicals company based in Wichita, Kansas. It sells products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol, polymers, intermediate chemicals, base oils and asphalt. It operates oil refineries in six states. Flint Hill has chemical plants in Illinois, Texas and Michigan. The firm is also a major manufacturer of asphalt used for paving and roofing applications. It operates 13 asphalt terminals located in six states including Alaska (2 terminals), Wisconsin (2), Iowa (3), Minnesota (4), Nebraska (1), and North Dakota(1). The firm manages the purchasing of domestic crude oil from Texas and Colorado offices, has four ethanol plants across Iowa, operates three refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and has a refinery terminal in Alaska. The Minnesota refinery can process 320,000 barrels of crude a day, most of which comes from from Alberta, and handles one quarter of all Tar Sands crude entering the U.S. It also operates fuel terminals in Wisconsin (4 locations), Texas (6), and one each in Iowa and Minnesota.

5. Koch Fertilizer, LLC, is one of the world’s largest makers of nitrogen fertilizers. Koch Fertilizer owns or has interests in fertilizer plants the United States, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Italy, among others. In October 2010, a plant in Venezuela was nationalized by the government. Koch Agricultural Company's Matador Cattle Company division operates three ranches totaling 425,000 acres located in Beaverhead, Montana, Matador, Texas and the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas. There are more than 15,000 head of cattle raised on the ranches.
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