GOP Threat: Cut Social Security and Medicare or we’ll kill the economy. Americans say NO to both.

By Roger Hickey | January 6, 2013

Here we go again. Republicans are very clear about their latest extortion threat to the American people: Unless you cut Social Security and Medicare benefits, within the next two months we will throw the US economy back into recession – by refusing to allow the US raise the debt ceiling and pay our bills – or by pushing the economy over another fiscal cliff of deep spending cuts and tax increases – or by shutting down the government by refusing to pass a continuing budget resolution.