Blame the House of Rothschild......I think your last paragraph says it most succinctly..."This means that we have IMF economists, who failed disastrously at their jobs, who can draw six-figure pensions at age 52, telling ordinary workers that they have to take a cut in their $14,000 a year Social Security benefits that they can't start getting until age 62." I don't think this happened due to an accident or because IMF economists are lazy. It was a concerted effort on the part of IMF, disaster capitalism, it's its purest for. The worker bee economist reward? They get to enjoy a early retirement with maximum benefits, a salve for their guilty conscious...if they have one.

They are trying to mine our bones and we even aren't dead yet.

I am one of those whose 38-plus years of work was mostly low-paid. However, seventeen years of it was union with a union pension and annuity - invested in AIG. My last five years were for the state - low-paid but also union with union pension - unfortunately invested by the most-degreed and well-connected folks in the room.

Basically all I have at age 64 is a social security check that is inadequate even if I can avoid homelessness and starvation till age 65. I am apparently unemployable.

So why don't "they" just get honest and start the soylent green factories?

A lot of the tea party people have the right idea about being angry, but they are too brainwashed to understand they are not angry in the right direction.....blaming the other victims instead of the real perpetrators( maybe I should spell that ; perps and traitors)
Also that comment; Mon, 07/12/2010 - 19:55 — Anonymous
about "the vast amount of money set aside for Social Security and if they can tap into that money they can use it for whatever the hell they want. " Well, that was the plan all along, that money has all been spent and is being spent on "whatever the hell they want."
What they want to do now is delay paying the baby boomers and the rest who have been pre-paying an extra amount for 30 years and those coming later, hoping more will die before they have to pay out anything.

Those who propose "privatizing" and phasing out this very workable social program are purely evil and greedy. Hard to believe that they would eat their parents and grandparents....but it is obvious that they would, preferably with fava beans and a light chianti,

Gee, I wonder why the IMF is not calling for an end to the Afghanistan war that is the real reason for our deep deficit. (We all know the IMF is just a prop for bankers and their neoliberal ideology. Even it doesn't believe a word that comes out of its lying mouth.)

Eliminate the FICA cap on all individual income and increase social security benefits. Cut the Pentagon budget 40%, seriously penalize waste and fraud. Most important, BAN international corporations and their tax loopholes will be eliminated, where ever they park their greedy butts plant a lynching tree. Send the IMF to Hell.

I agree with the commenter who chastised
the "Blame the House of Rothschild" commenter
for an antisemitic aspersion.
It is interesting to note how many people who
are the targets of the Rupert machine blame
a 19th Century fantasy from some
20th Century pamphlet by Henry Ford instead
of looking closely at who is screwing them today.
I don't think that Rupert Murdoch was ever
circumcised or bar-mitzvah'd.

IMF is following the orders of BIG MONEY like everybody else.

Blaming the economists for keeping their jobs will not solve any problem, especially when the game plan is not set by themselves. I've seen the IMF doing disgusting things since the '80s and it's clear that the World Bank and the International Munetary Fund have been spreading the colonial policy of the USA since the '80s at least.

But spearheading colonial policies is not something are supposed to believe in, having been studying the details of colonization and decolonization policies since the end of WWII.

Colonial ideas must come from elsewhere, for example from Wall Street where the string pullers can hide behind their suits to order the ruin of entire communities, to order wars which are not winnable, to bankrupt the entire world economy and people still to remain very polite with them afterwards, are very good candidates for colonial policy underwriting in this country.

They own everyone and everybody. So why shouldn't they offer themselves a colonial policy after all?

Amazing that many of these IMF schmucks come from countries where they have heavily socialized programs for their working/middle classes. . ...medical, retirement, etc.. The US has so little of these programs compared to theirs, yet, we should take the hit so they can keep their cushion! What a crock. They should come out of their family wine cellars and see the light for a change!

The IMF represents the interests of the wealthy, as do the two corporate-financed parties in the US.

We need to start growing a party that represent CITIZENS' interests, like the Green Party.

The Green Party doesn't accept any corporate money and deserves our support. 5% of the vote will get the Green Party matching Federal funds, and is a first step in taking our country back from the corporations.

If you vote Republican or Democrat, you're perpetuating the corruption and economic violence against the non-wealthy, and YOU"RE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

VOTE GREEN!

The IMF may be party to some economic treaty like GATT that the US signed, but the Congress can always invalidate the treaty.

The problem is Congress works for the same financiers who run the IMF and not for the American people.

The corporate media are controlling the political discourse in America and therefore we have no First Amendment Rights. Unless we have free and open television broadcasting and internet broadband access, we have corporate censorship and nothing else.

Are we gonna stand and watch them come and let them swoop in to steal it or are we gonna shoot them down and clear them out (euphemistically speaking that is).

Suggestion: USA should drop out of the IMF, period. Since when does a global institution tell a nation state what to do, when to bend over, and where to put it????? The IMF served its purpose long ago. Disband it.

Suggestion No 2: You think the USA should cut its deficit? Wonder why the first words out of your mouth are: cut social security.

You say, not in cahoots with the global elite? Hah! I say to America; cut foreign aid budgets by 50%, end Rumsfeld's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan pronto; Cut federal executive branch management salaries by 10%, cut Office of the US Treasury by 50% and we're all set into the foreseeable furture.

Next: Drop out of NAFTA and GATT.
Utilize tariffs to stimulate America's industries. Protect America's high technology sector. Just for starters.

Enough already yet with tax credits in this country. 45% of Americans don't pay taxes. There was a time a place for these but targeted tax credits removes monies needed to operate the country.

I don't give a rats ass blankety blank blank what the IMF thinks this country or any other sovereign nation what it needs to do.

Lastly, imagine this. The President of the IMF
whose salary is at minimum 1/2 a million alone, is a Socialist? and plans to run as the Presidential nominee of the Socialist Party of France! He is destablizing America in order to throw heaps of money on his pet LDCs...

F him.

Money is a lie. The US can grow enough food, manufacture enough goods, and mine, recycle, or trade for all of the raw resources that we need. Money should only be a means for distributing wealth fairly, and should not be treated as the end goal the way it is now.

It is the actions of the corrupt that tie up wealth, so that they can control the resources and sustain their power and wasteful lifestyles.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the principal drain on the budget and economy the federal support of a hostile and belligerent, militaristic foreign policy which necessitates a massively wasteful and non-productive military establishment, precisely what Eisenhower warned of in his last presidential address. A sane and pacific foreign policy with a much reduced military establishment would solve the deficit problem in fairly short order, NO?

Recipients of Social Security are among the LEAST able, financially, to contest the inequities and iniquities of our governmental bureaucracy. Of course they will attack where resistance is least likely to arise.

Too late.

The article failed to mention of the disability SSI would be included in this raid. If it does it would mean not only people who worked hard all their lives would be nailed to a cross but children and adults who are genuinely disabled for life would be cruelly persecuted. Most of us that are disabled didn't ask for the life we have and have done nothing worse than being born "less than perfect".

I have some other points to mention while I'm here. The first being that I agree with every commenter that said we should stop the industrial/military complex at once. It is nothing more than a tool of the U.S. Imperial power(think ancient Rome).

I also agree with the notion that we can and should start making and growing are own goods. In addition to that we can and should adopt local currencies to use for exchange of goods and services.

Not everything that is European is bad. Look at the extrodinary bicycle culture that is being built up there. We don't need for 50% of the of we buy. This oil is turned into fuel for all are personal vehicle which among other things has brought a lot social destruction of our city-states.

We also need to shed the consumerist nonsense as that is part of how they(the elite) have been able to control the people of Turtle Island. Having all that junk won't make a person anymore happier than having just the amount and kinds of things that is actually needed for ones and families genuine needs.

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