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So is this going to be the year the Republicans can pull off what they tried to do with Barack Obama

and failed, you'll recall in 2011, the Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling until Obama would

agree to cutting Social Security. Obama tentatively said, okay, we'll go along with the chain CPI,

we'll slow down the growth of Social Security over the next decade until it becomes almost

meaningless, but Democrats rose up and said, how dare you?

And that led to the default, or actually it wasn't a default, it led to the possibility of a

default, which led Moody's to downgrade our credit rating from AAA plus to AA, which cost

America badly. I mean, damage our economy for the following five years and really hurt the

Democrats in the next election in the 2012 election. Are we going to see a repeat of this?

Will the next year be all about privatizing Medicare and Social Security?

Let's ask the guy who would know, Alex Lawson is the executive director of SocialSecurityWorks.org

and strengthensocialsecurity.org, is Twitter handle SS Works or a Law 202?

Alex, welcome back to the program. So where are we at with these programs and this new Congress?

I'm just going to start by saying no, this isn't the year that the Republicans are going to get

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