{"id":11712,"date":"2012-07-31T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2016-06-10T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:09:09","slug":"the-ceo-plan-to-steal-your-social-security-and-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/31\/the-ceo-plan-to-steal-your-social-security-and-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Of Change has the article <a title=\"The Nation of Change article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/ceo-plan-steal-your-social-security-and-medicare-1343741562\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the same folks who brought the economy to ruin just a few years ago are now going to come up with a plan that is supposed to set the budget and the economy on a forward path. At the center of their proposal are big cuts in Social Security and Medicare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is an interesting article even if I do classify this as an example of <a title=\"View all posts in Greenberg's Law of The Media\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/category\/greenbergs-laws\/greenbergslawofthemedia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Greenberg&#8217;s Law of the Media<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 He talks about an 0.3% change per year in the COLA adjustment for Social Security, aggregates this to 3% over ten years and then compares this to the 3% change in upper income tax rate.\u00a0 3% is 3%, right?\u00a0 Well 0.3% a year is\u00a0 not the same as 3% a year and 3% over 10 years is also not the same as 3% over 1 year.\u00a0 Putting this aside, the rest of the article might supply you with some information you didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Of Change has the article The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare. Many of the same folks who brought the economy to ruin just a few years ago are now going to come up with a plan that is supposed to set the budget and the economy on a forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,166],"tags":[35],"class_list":{"0":"post-11712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greenbergs-law-of-the-media","7":"category-stevegsposts","8":"tag-social-security","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22776,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions\/22776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}