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🗓️ 6 August 2023
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Primila Jayapal and the Progressive Caucus are still on the ground pushing for the needs of the common person- raising the minimum wage, protecting Social Security, immigration reform, and slowing climate change. Can we save the faith of the people in our government?
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0:47.9 | 82% of voters oppose the Republican push to cut social security for Americans under 50. |
0:55.1 | This is what Reagan did, and it worked for him, and so they think they can do it again. |
0:59.8 | Well, Reagan did was, when he came into office, he said, you know, we want to cut social security, |
1:04.9 | one of the easiest ways to cut it is by raising the retirement age from 65 up to 67. |
1:11.1 | But we're not going to do it for the people who are about to retire because they'll get pissed off |
1:16.4 | and they won't vote for Republicans. In fact, we're not even going to do it for the people who are |
1:20.9 | going to retire in 20 years because they're still voters too, they're going to get pissed off. |
1:25.4 | We're going to do it for the people who are like in their 20s and 30s. |
1:30.6 | And we're going to do it, we're going to do it on young people because they're not paying |
1:34.2 | attention to social security and they don't care. And sure enough, that's what he did in 1986 or |
1:39.7 | maybe it was 83 with his commission, his the Greenspan commission, is they recommended that Congress |
1:46.4 | pass legislation and Reagan promoted it and signed it that raised the retirement age for |
1:51.9 | social security from 65 to 67. It just took effect last year or the year before. |
1:56.8 | Ronald Reagan did this to us 40 years ago. So now the Republicans think that they can do this again |
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