Counterpoint 10-05-26 w Scott Harris discusses: GOP poised to cut Social Security benefits; Fmr security officials call on states to defend election against military interference; Left & right rise in German elections; New Haven Advocate weekly reborn

Always my pleasure to be here.

So a quick word.

There are many longtime listeners who know well about the important work you do at Social Security Works, but give a brief rundown of the things you do address.

Just in line with the original intent of Social Security, we fight to build an ever-expanding system of economic security for everyone in this country.

mainly takes the focus of protecting and expanding Social Security, improving and expanding Medicare, Medicaid, lowering prescription drug prices, and otherwise just challenging the billionaire class so that they don't crash the world economy.

That's a good cause.

And I wanted to get right to our topic this evening.

You wrote an article for Common Dreams a week or two ago titled House Republicans Pitch a Plane to Cut Social Security to Billionaire Donor Harlan Crowe.

So on September 21st, He wrote the GOP led House Budget Committee held a field hearing at the Dallas, Texas, property owned by billionaire Harlan Crowe, who's a big contributor to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, among others, which this hearing focused on creating a fast track commission to cut Social Security benefits behind closed doors, as you describe it.

Tell us about this hearing where, as you say, seniors and disabled people who wanted to attend to hear plans about this vital program that so many millions depend on, they were kept out.

Yeah, the first thing to understand is that the billionaires know that it's deeply unpopular to cut Social Security.

So they do everything they can with their puppets in Congress to hide their intentions of doing so.

But let me be super clear.

That is exactly what they're doing.

That's what they're working on every day.

And so one of the ways they tried to If you just Google Alex Loss and Jody Arrington, you'll see my years-long bromance with the Republican chair of the House Budget Committee, who's proposed this commission to cut Social Security.

He's had me escorted out of his committee room.

He had me arrested in his committee room one time, always for raising my voice in saying nobody wants to cut Social Security.

So their latest effort, they just they did a field hearing.

And there are rules around what you can do and how you can have field hearings.

They broke all of them because their goal wasn't to seek the input of the American people, which is what a field hearing is for.

It was to hide their schemes from the American people.

So they, with very little notice, moved the hearing out of D.C., not just to be away from me, but at some level to be away from me so that I couldn't go there, so that the people couldn't show up.

But show up we did in Dallas, Texas, where they moved it to.

And even then, they wouldn't allow us in.

Always my pleasure to be here.

So a quick word.

There are many longtime listeners who know well about the important work you do at Social Security Works, but give a brief rundown of the things you do address.

Just in line with the original intent of Social Security, we fight to build an ever-expanding system of economic security for everyone in this country.

mainly takes the focus of protecting and expanding Social Security, improving and expanding Medicare, Medicaid, lowering prescription drug prices, and otherwise just challenging the billionaire class so that they don't crash the world economy.

That's a good cause.

And I wanted to get right to our topic this evening.

You wrote an article for Common Dreams a week or two ago titled House Republicans Pitch a Plane to Cut Social Security to Billionaire Donor Harlan Crowe.

So on September 21st, He wrote the GOP led House Budget Committee held a field hearing at the Dallas, Texas, property owned by billionaire Harlan Crowe, who's a big contributor to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, among others, which this hearing focused on creating a fast track commission to cut Social Security benefits behind closed doors, as you describe it.

Tell us about this hearing where, as you say, seniors and disabled people who wanted to attend to hear plans about this vital program that so many millions depend on, they were kept out.

Yeah, the first thing to understand is that the billionaires know that it's deeply unpopular to cut Social Security.

So they do everything they can with their puppets in Congress to hide their intentions of doing so.

But let me be super clear.

That is exactly what they're doing.

That's what they're working on every day.

And so one of the ways they tried to If you just Google Alex Loss and Jody Arrington, you'll see my years-long bromance with the Republican chair of the House Budget Committee, who's proposed this commission to cut Social Security.

He's had me escorted out of his committee room.

He had me arrested in his committee room one time, always for raising my voice in saying nobody wants to cut Social Security.

So their latest effort, they just they did a field hearing.

And there are rules around what you can do and how you can have field hearings.

They broke all of them because their goal wasn't to seek the input of the American people, which is what a field hearing is for.

It was to hide their schemes from the American people.

So they, with very little notice, moved the hearing out of D.C., not just to be away from me, but at some level to be away from me so that I couldn't go there, so that the people couldn't show up.

But show up we did in Dallas, Texas, where they moved it to.

And even then, they wouldn't allow us in.