Plutocrats' New Pitch: Let Us Rob You Now So You Can Plan Ahead for Poverty

By Lynn Stuart Parramore

August 22, 2013  |  Somehow, I’ve wound up on the mailing list for a group of oligarchs campaigning to swindle Americans out of their hard-earned retirement insurance. Hedge fund billionaire Pete Peterson, the budget buffoons Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, and the rest of their merry band of hustlers over at the hilariously named Committee for a Responsible Budge [3]t have asked me to consider their latest proposal.

 

So I thought I’d oblige them, what the heck.

Judging from the shrill headline in their mailing [full text here [4]], these men (and a token woman or two) wish to sell me on the idea of “Social Security Reform and the Cost of Delay.”

The cost of delay? Boys, I hear you on that. Any delay in ripping me off must be very costly — for you.