In fact, Sloan isn't just saying the rich believe they are entitled to this -- he's actually saying the rich will wage an open class war against Social Security if anyone tries to change the situation, rather than slash Social Security benefits or raise the retirement age.
It was an economic stimulus bill, but also a proposal to slash social security benefits.
Republicans, if they could, would slash Social Security benefits and turn Medicare into a voucher program.
So any deal reached now would, in practice, be nothing more than a deal to slash Social Security and Medicare, with no lasting improvement in the deficit.
And, of course, do slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid right away, or the markets will punish you for your presumption.
"Both support an economic plan that would help out the richest and the big corporations, but not the middle class," says the narrator, who also says the two men would "slash Social Security" and "end Medicare as we know it".
And consider the alternative, in which we slash Social Security and Medicare not because the nation can't afford those programs, but merely because workers are taking a smaller share of national income.
Food banks, as countless studies in Canada, the US and the UK have shown, are popular welfare solutions only for governments who slash social security and are happy to encourage low-wage economies.
That changes the question from if the GOP will try to slash Social Security and Medicare to when will the onslaught begin.
Quote Message: The SNP in Westminster will stand firm against the relentless drive of Tory austerity, and their proposals to slash social security spending by removing benefits from young people and freezing benefits for working families.
"Rigging the budget process to slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid would be devastating for the working families that President-elect Trump claims to represent," said Harry Stein, Director of Fiscal Policy at CAP.
