but know that there is commanders of
uh...
frustration with some of the citizen of happen in this white house
there's prophet rationing the times that
the pace of change has exceeded
uh... everyone's patients including our own
well you got that right there's a lot of frustration in there
now sri sensei dose the majority poured in ozark line washington post columnist
msnbc political analyst to talk about it
said you know i i don't know if you saw last segment all worked up there cuz it
looks like everybody in washington now agrees
but there is a retirement age also security and medicare m_i_a_ the only
one here are the deficits of disaster
forty s that make a lot of progress is angry
by the governor made a lot of progressive and drag it made a lot of
americans angry and they look
uh... with all due respect to the congressman the idea that the that the
life expectancy has been a jump ten or twenty years over the next thirty years
and he looked at the bottom line is the live pictures pectin seat needs to be
measured after the age of sixty-five and that is barely budged in the past
hundred years in particularly even less so for those people in the bottom half
of the uh... being come distribution so this the idea that this somehow i mean
look if you're going to raise the the uh... the retirement age you if you are
cutting social security and the idea that you're going to pretend that that
somehow we're gonna be living to hundred forty years old and everyone to be doing
this it would be able to work into our seventies it's simply not the case and
if you have to use those type of back student justify it then you've got a
real problem your argument so what's going on right country what some people
watching the show they want to know
why hot cum eighty four percent a country says don't cut social security
benefits
everybody in washington and even if they are p somoza represent these people now
says i a m a razor time aging cut benefits
yells and i would definitely
it's a popular art now you're always think that what happens in washington is
that if you look at a place at the senate look the think tanks or their
element of the establishment
people like to work until about seventy-five eighty eighty five you
gotta take folks out of the senate on a stretcher
so it sounds very reasonable to them at the date you would have breeze
retirement age about sixty five and now it's going to sixty seven to may be up
to sixty two sixty nine i'm not as opposed i think in all circumstances to
benefit cuts as you are but it is important say the raising the retirement
age is he parked a clear egress way to do it you can means test benefits of
people don't need it as much get less from social security became industry for
benefit cuts that you've police to see more clearly the effect of the policy
but simply raising retirement essentially means that people who have
the worst jobs most menial jobs most physical labor they're the ones you get
hit hardest as exactly what i think we should be worrying about as you get your
retirement age well sam i mean look tag that's a great point by as early goes
the heart of the problems i it seems like they don't look out for us right
uh... and you made the point that actually people that are ed poor
not as long as the people who are richer so they get their benefits cup
tomorrow's and they gotta work the longest and so it's just
as you look at in any i know you're in that mood tommy
is this feeling of frustration with people who are supposed to be on our
side the democrats the white house is that palpable over there
you know i think i i i think my sense is is that it's been uh... a little bit
over reported that there is this type of uh... frustration i mean obviously if
there
and uh... i don't know that it's uh... i think people are are starting to wonder
you know what is it that we can do to fight this and i think uh... the idea is
that we can't look to our politicians i think as ours at philly right uh... are
establishment lives in a bubble you can see over the past thirty years i think
uh... is professor from princeton who is shown that uh... regardless of who was
in office that uh... the the policy preferences of the wealthy in this
country have been more or less uh... followed
and so we have a real problem this is this is a just another aspect frankly of
of a class war that's being waged on
on the middle class and it really uh... we're talking sixty seventy percent of
the country sixty percent of the contra seniors
rely on social security for over fifty percent of their income in retirement
age
and so when you're talking about cutting social security when you're talking
about medicaid is on the you know as our noses that there are you know well what
happens to uh... many elderly as they go into homes there on medicare and then
they become too poor and so they are on medicaid for their homes and so this is
a direct assault on
on the nearly half if not more of the country
that you know these are all great points desert we've got a taxes
you see where the problem is we've got a massive redistribution of wealth word
record low tax rates and now the report was come out like the tempo twenty chunk
of a plan
to reduce taxes to almost nothing for the rich
thanks courses eleven trillion dollars of oil and the plant wachner says she's
big pretty much in favor of retirement and they all say their favorite
so it is in this a class war isn't it the rich have declared war on the middle
class and we just don't know it
kim template is going to set a remarkable endeavor than anybody make
george w_ bush took like robin hood but he's pretty much management
is our cost for there are competing preferences and a it is truly believes
that he has a generally is a bit new rich have more sway in washington
that said i think that you would you have an issue where the democrats have
internal been terrified of the tax issue may not been terrified just because a
richard spending cuts and they've been terrified because
they feel like they've lost on it and brock obama came right in and make this
terrible promise never to raise taxes on anybody making less than two hundred
fifty thousand
and if you're never going to do that you're not to retire much of the deputy
patches that really is not give me a serious part
of the solution and so
you can just say that it's all the sort of the rich interested sell-offs purses
them there's sort of a bipartisan consensus in washington for the vast
majority of tax rates should not rise
and when you're not going to touch taxes you're not going to get your going to
have to hit things like medicare social security medicaid very hard their
reforms in a couple of programs anyway by the way
we have been a lot harder if you're not willing to make revenues partisan lucien
everyone loves but ecclesiastes religion is that there is a bipartisan consensus
but it is among the rich of democrats in the rich republicans
who agree that
the middle class should have the money the rich
sam last word
well i mean that's exactly right i mean if there's a bipartisan consensus that
uh... we we we can't raise taxes on on the record that we should
we should take it out of a hides of the middle class then now you're right
though there is a class war
alright sam cedar as reclining goes great
thank for joining us and i really appreciate it