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Obama's Crazy Plan To Cut Social Security

Nancy J. Altman, Eric Kingson, Nieman Watchdog. May 28, 2010.

Is Obama's new "debt commission" about to savage Social Security for no reason? Sure looks like it.

Stop Trying to Kill Social Security

Dean Baker, Comment Is Free. April 29, 2010.

Worried about the deficit? Wall Street is the problem, not Social Security.

CNN Links Arms with Billionaire's Project to Fleece Social Security and Other Bedrock Social Programs

Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future. April 10, 2010.

Billionaire Pete Peterson's anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare anti-public investment deficit propaganda film "I.O.U.S.A" is scheduled for broadcast on CNN.

In Defense of Deficits

James K. Galbraith, The Nation. March 5, 2010.

The deficit phobia of Wall Street, the media, politicians and some economists is one of the deepest dangers that we face -- and it threatens all of us.

Conservative Mogul Buying Up Reporters to Promote His Regressive Agenda

William Greider, The Nation. January 6, 2010.

Pete Peterson, the Wall Street billionaire who wants to loot Social Security, has created a "news network" hooked up to the Washington Post.

Scheme to Loot Social Security Must Be Stopped Before the Dems Think It's Smart Politics

William Greider, The Nation. January 4, 2010.

Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson has invented his own "news network" to promote his right-wing rants, and the Washington Post is lending its name to his cause.