wife's
I think it is a
no surprise to listeners to this program
that the I have always found fix the debt
and their tiny cousin
I don't know or their offspring kick the can which is the millennial
version a fix the debt to be a huge joke
how we had the some beheaded have
kick the can on this program did we some time ago Nick
tree on our victory on a child I do that
I am I do remember how that went
other than the fact that he's didn't seem to really answer a lot of questions
I am shocking but then you will recall that term
couple weeks ago fix the debt had a Q&A
which the I was involved in asking a lot of questions
they shut that down very quickly almost the precursor to the
ask JPM Morgan Chase anything you want which they had to actually preemptively
canceled because people
where are tweeting at them so hard well
now sadly a another tragedy
has befallen the fix the debt
people it has become clear
that it's virtually impossible for them to make the case that they are
a grassroots organization they have been
enough course you know this was always something they were just pretending
not just for us rubes benefit
but really more for the benefit love the
mainstream media so important that they
show that there's a just a sea of Millennials out there
and a and ocean
I love centrist no label types of people
who just want washington get down to business cut Social Security
so that we don't have this multi-generational
theft there's intergenerational theft between
old people and young people who deserve a chance
so
fix the debt who was quite clear from that the
Twitter Smackdown that they have no one who really is interested in asking them
a legitimate question because there are two illegitimate outfit
and apparently John Romano the press secretary for the inside-the-beltway PR
campaign
fix the debt this is coming from Mary but
harriett Campaign for America's future has been caught riding of the heads for
college students
and placing the identical op-eds in papers across the country
now discard to plate this for a moment
folks this is something of course that
fake grassroots organizations do all the time
but these are college students who s 10 sibly
are driven by the fear this intergenerational
theft and frankly these exactly the type people you think would have the time
to write these up beds or at least
just massage them in some way right because these are people who are
looking to get a job with kick the can or fix the debt
or maybe they already have one
and that is how much money do we have to pay you to put your name on this
I mean I hope these college kids got some money otherwise
what we're looking at is intergenerational fact
from these older people
at kick the can already the fix the debt
the identical op-eds were discovered by Florida's Gainesville Sun
if you like universities Florida student Brandon Scott calm last Sunday about the
national debt
you also should enjoy homes by Dartmouth College didn't
Thomas Wayne University Wisconsin Jennifer
Pavelec on the issue they're the same
columns each included the same first-person passage describing the
students work with campaign to fix the debt
and its Maleny alarm the can kick back
the Sun had this to say: it is the Suns publicly
policy not to publish astroturf pieces written by advocacy groups
and only signed by supporters wrote the editorial page editor
had BC group another should lay off the astroturf
an outright plagiarism unless they want to discredit themselves and their causes
well I am sorry
for a walk that already happened
they have been discredited
now we know that this is a nother P peterson funded
I guess the pay to
play I guess in some ways he funded
I am five million dollars to fix the debt to get it off the ground
JP Morgan Chase pitched in a half a million sees me
half-a-billion no half-a-million and GE contributed $1 million
and its entire grassroot networker just basically a series a PR firms
what fix the debt fails to tell students is that its leaders Alan Simpson and
Erskine Bowles
they I love the Gangnam style parodies
not only wants to cut Social Security and Medicare
for those keeps sucking old people
but also attacks college students by calling for higher interest rates on
student loans
and the change the law to allow those interest rates kick in even before the
student graduates from college
this folks is nothing new and I anticipate we're going to hear more
about this
back in ninety 7 1997
fairness and accuracy in media had a piece
saying the media have been duped by a clever campaign
whose intention is to get rid of those nasty social security programs
perhaps the idea of generational warfare
was too good news story to question whatever the reason the media have
turned an ideological assertion
into conventional wisdom in a process have distorted the political voice have
an entire generation
back then it was my generation
generation X
and it was an organization called Americans for generational a quality
equity or
age
and as the authors of this peace road
an organization that demonstrates with proper funding it's possible to launch
an unsubstantiated idea
and see it turn into the standard media view
and who is one of the big funders
Ovi age
back at that time
well it was funded by a
a five-star general this generational war
P peterson an investment banker in president at the Concord Coalition
Peterson intern funded both lead or leave
now-defunct and third millennium
30 Nov 3rd millenium .40 founders were affiliated with the Madison center
including third millennium board member jonathan karl
who at that time was a resident Genex political analyst at CNN
and has moved on to ABC News
so there you have it yes the third way was
all bound up in that
so in at the time their agenda
was accepted as post-partisan yes indeed folks
what is old his new again
P peterson want to the loggers you someone tweeted me n aswell
is P Pearson really think that he's gonna get a return on its investment for
that one billion
and I would say to you when you have billions upon billions of dollars
and you have no way to figure out how to spend it
sometimes your returns on investment are not just in dollars
but in Legacy ladies and gentlemen and this guy's been working
for over 20 five years
spending his fortune which is made by
sucking money out of our economy
to destroy a the
meager meager payments
to the elderly in this country in there
retirement
and work I nose is gonna say I was thinking about this this morning
how just creepy it is on some level
to have all these resources at your disposal
and focus on micro targeting essentially just making more people's lives
generally worse
is just I mean I'm not im not saying it's surprising or unexpected but
that particular obsession with those programs
and cutting them he's in
being so relentless I creepy it's just the word that keeps occurring to me it's
incredibly creepy but I mean you know lucky
sometimes it any easier marker her to lay down
I am you know you gonna do good in the world is just a drop in the bucket but
if you can do some real damage
i'd that's something that the
I wonder fee if he ever got these cuts to Social Security pass if you would
make himself like just like a big trophy
or maybe just a statue of himself I've disabled would you just adds and some
level obviously completely non applicable to him
if you sat down you accomplish that you know he I made all this money doing
whatever
and then I just worked so hard the bottom line yes
is that for guys like this Social Security and Medicare
represent the cornerstone I love
AV social insurance social welfare program in this country
are which came out I'll the which was still
came out in part the some was it specifically part the New Deal
and to be able to turn the clock back on that
I think is you know it's a feather in the cap in if you've got a couple
billion a spare
I mean come on you get to parade around with the hat
and that further in that