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The NYT told readers this morning:
“Once this year’s budget battle is settled, Congress will move on to potentially bigger fights over whether to raise the national debt limit and how to rein in the costs of , and .”
Wow, huge majorities oppose cuts to Social Security (Medicare also), but the only debate in Congress is over “how” to cut the program. So much for democracy in America.