Social Security

Digby explains the motive for the Republican plan to kill Social Security:

...Their motive for destroying social security is that it puts the lie to their contention that government can't be trusted to do any positive social good. They are wrong and social security proves it. That's why they must create the lie that it won't work even while it's clearly working. As the quotes above prove, they've been crying wolf for decades and yet the program continues to provide millions of old and disabled people a bare minimum of income when they are past their working years and it will continue to be funded, fairly painlessly, for at least another forty years. It's very existence is a slap in the face to the Republican philosophy. That's why they must destroy it. ...

That's the why, and the post talks about the recently leaked Republican memo that outlines their plan to axe our social safety net. Write your representatives in the House and Senate and ask them to fight this.