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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Today's Must Read

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Reality) on reductions to Social Security. It's a Q&A, but here's the lead-in:

The Koch brothers, Pete Peterson and other billionaires are spending huge amounts of money trying to cut Social Security and other vitally important federal programs. As part of this campaign, an enormous amount of misinformation is floating around. Let me try to set the record straight by answering a few of the questions that people are asking my office.

And in case you were wondering, no, SS is not going broke.

My Senators don't have that many balls between them.

Read the whole thing.



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