This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode the deficit.

3) Demand cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

4) Repeat.

Don't let them get away with it.

@rbreich
The corporations and the GOP have been fighting FDR's economic policies for almost a century.

Made progress with Reagan, but its taken the corporate takeover via lobbists of the congress' and state legislatures' law-writing, ALEC, the creation of the right-wing media ecosystem, etc., to push forward.