5 Biggest Threats to Social Security with the new Republican Congress

http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-biggest-threats-social-security-new-republican-congress?akid=12649.294211.NL4bZa&rd=1&src=newsletter1029704&t=12

1.  A few Democrats who will cave to the wishes of the Cut Social Security crowd.
2.  What will President Obama do?  He may go for TPP which would impact Social Security and  jobs being sent overseas.
3. Paul Ryan is more powerful than ever: In the new Congress, the Republican from Wisconsin will chair the House Ways and Means Committee. This makes him an even bigger force on Social Security policy than he was as Budget Committee chair, when he repeatedly called for hobbling the program.
4. Rightward shift at the CBO: The Congressional Budget Office is the Hill's numbers cruncher on the economic and budgetary impact of present and proposed policy. The incoming Republican leadership have made clear they will replace director Doug Elmendorff, a centrist, with someone more to their ideological liking. A rightward shift at CBO couldn't come at a worse time for Social Security. 
5. Blocking police reform: What do the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the nationwide protests against racially biased policing have to do with Social Security? It's almost axiomatic that programs like Social Security, based in mutual aid and a strong feeling of community solidarity, work best in societies with minimal social-cultural divisions. The beginnings of the long political war against Social Security roughly coincided with the 1970s backlash against the Civil Rights movement.