GOP destroying Social Security...ya still dumb enough to vote for 'em?

How the GOP almost forced a Social Security disaster: Everything you need to know about their disgraceful hostage-taking

http://www.salon.com/2015/11/01/how_the_gop_almost_forced_a_social_security_disaster_everything_you_need_to_know_about_their_disgraceful_hostage_taking/


"Unlike the other hostages, involving funding the government and raising the debt limit, the Social Security hostage directly affects some of our most vulnerable fellow Americans. If Congress did not act before the end of 2016, benefits would have been cut at that time by 20 percent. The commissioner of Social Security said recently that if Congress did not act, the automatic cuts would be a “death sentence” for those beneficiaries.

The average disabled-worker benefit is $1,165 a month, or about $39 per day. These modest benefits keep millions of men, women, and children from deep poverty, even homelessness, and serve as the sole or main source of income for about 80 percent of beneficiaries. Without these benefits, about one out of two beneficiaries would live in poverty; even with benefits, most have low incomes.

And one reality bears pointing out here: These beneficiaries could be any of us. Even the healthiest among us can find ourselves in a disabling car accident or stricken with a life-threatening, disabling illness"

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WWW.SALON.COM|BY NANCY ALTMAN