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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com — Peter Peterson is out to get your Social Security and Medicare. For those who don't know him, Peterson has long been in the public limelight.

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salon.com — During his fiscal responsibility summit, President Obama must not cave in to the privatizers and slashers.

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washingtonpost.com — We need to increase public spending and debt now to restore economic growth and then gradually reduce the debt ratio once recovery comes. Social Security has little to do with this challenge. Nor does Medicare, if we reform our overall health system. Since the early 1980s, Peter G. Peterson has been warning that future entitlement deficits would crash the economy. Yet when the crash came, the cause was not deficits but wild speculation on Wall Street.

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thenation.com — Defending Social Security sounds like yesterday's issue #&8212; the fight people won when they defeated George W. Bush's attempt to privatize the system in 2005. But the financial establishment has pushed it back on the table, claiming that the current crisis requires "responsible" leaders to take action. Will Obama take the bait? Surely not.

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thenation.com — A self-righteous billionaire spending his fortune to save the nation from the elderly is leading an effort that would misappropriate the trillions in Social Security taxes that workers have paid to finance their retirement benefits. This swindle is portrayed as "fiscal reform" to pay the cost of bailing out the banks. In fact, it's the political equivalent of bait-and-switch fraud.

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thenation.com — I am a great believer in freedom of expression, but I have been tempted recently to make an exception, not by banning speech but by requiring it. I would be very happy if there was some way to make it a misdemeanor for people to talk about reducing the budget deficit without including a recommendation that we substantially cut military spending.

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