Why is President Obama trying to take funds from Social Security?

The raids on the Social Security Trust Fund have been going on for decades: http://www.uncle-scam.com/Confessions/house/confes... I think it may have started during Reagan's administration. It gets me how conservatives keep blaming SS for the current problems with the deficit. There is massive wasteful spending happening that has nothing to do with human service programs. Anybody remember the $300 hammer scandal in the 80's where government contractors were massively inflating the costs of very inexpensive items? We all thought the government caught on and stopped it but I saw a documentary about 6 months ago that was showing how it is still going on. Now it's $400 for a washer--yeah, those little metal round things plumbers use that cost about a buck for a pack at the Home Depot. Conservatives are using SS as some platform to get votes and trying to distract (successfully, unfortunately) constituents from seeing where the real waste is.

A better question is why cons suddenly care. They have been trying to destroy it for years.

Oh, that's right, Obama is not trying to de-fund it. The money would be taken out of the general fund, which would be paid for, with a tax on millionaires and over.

Obama already took over 800 Million Dollars in Medicare Funds away from Medicare and gave it to Obamacare resulting in making Medicare more insolvent then it was and causing huge cuts in Medicare benefits.

Its time that the American People come to the realization that the interest and well being of the American People are not the same as the interest of 0bama. 0bama's socialist ideology is proving to be the destruction of the American economy. Wake up America before its too late!

It's part of his strategy to bankrupt America

He wants to extend the "payroll tax holiday" which is a cut in Social Security taxes

And the tax cuts in his "Jobs Bill" are further reductions in Social Security taxes

The Social Security system is void of cash, and Obama wants to cut revenue further

Insanity......unless your goal is to bankrupt the system

Because in anything but capitalism you eventually run out of other people's money.

LOL. The health care bill was not drafted by Obama and much of it was a compromise. You cons are so gullible.

I am commenting on the answers you received. Duh.

already did in the obama care bill. took out a huge chunk and tries to blame it on the republicans, ALL the republicans voted NAY (no) on the obummer care health bill. -... ....

he's not.