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Congressmen Jim Cooper (D-TN) and Steven LaTourette (R-OH) are leading the charge for an alternative budget that envisions enacting the proposals of the Bowles-Simpson Fiscal Commission and the Rivlin-Domenici Task Force. However, both of these groups proposed significant cuts to the Social Security benefits that Americans and their families depend on.

 Anyhow, among other things, Romney called for fixing part of the long-term Social Security imbalance by raising the retirement age. Then, in an effort to make a human connection with his audience, he mentioned that his wife has two Cadillacs and, really, that was pretty much the end of the day.

Click here to read the complete article in the New York Times.

For three decades, conservatives' proposals for dramatic changes to the programs have reflected a divide-and-conquer strategy inspired by the Leninist movement.

Where do the Republican candidates stand on Social Security and Medicare? The answer is important, because the next president — Democrat or Republican — will inherit the call for changes in those programs to whittle federal spending.

Yesterday Thom Hartmann and I discussed the proposal to extend and expand what Democrats have called the 'payroll tax holiday.' (Video is below.) There are no heroes in this debate, but there are certainly villains. There are several different ways this could end - and most of them aren't good.

Today’s National Day of Action, called by Rebuild the Dream, the Alliance for Retired Americans and embraced by members of the Occupy movement, took an unlikely turn on Capitol Hill, as working and retired Americans joined together to tell lawmakers not to balance the budget on the backs of the 99 percent, as a joint congressional committee has threatened to do through proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Days after the tents were ripped out of Zuccotti Park in New York, hundreds of Americans brought the fight for the 99% to the nation's capital on Thursday with a "Wake-Up Congress" rally calling for the Super Committee to support "Jobs, Not Cuts" to key social programs. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) fittingly called it "#OccupyTheSuperCommittee."

Click here to read the full blogpost at Huffington Post.