| It's done. The Payroll Tax Cut has been passed, leaving most Americans heaving a small sigh of relief and President Obama looking like a winnah.
There's nothing wrong with that, but Bernie Sanders, who voted against the measure in what amounted to a token protest, would like to remind us that Republican demands that the cut be fully funded, mean that its passage was tied to the diversion of
"substantial sums of money from the Social Security Trust Fund, which is of such enormous importance to the American people."
That's right; the Republican effort to weaken Social Security in order to support their case for privatization has once more had its way. |
