Paul Krugman: The Republican 2016 Candidates Are Competing to Be America's Top Servant of the 1% @alternet
"that desire by almost the entire Republican field of potential presidential nominees to gut politically popular programs like Social Security is evidence that the party has essentially been sold to a select group of wealthy bidders.
Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz have all announced retrograde plans similar in scope and intent to George W. Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security, not because it’s politically expedient — most pollsters believe these positions will hurt them in the general election — but because they’ll never make it through the primaries without the support of 130 families who fund the majority of Republican campaigns."
