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In reply to the discussion: Obama: Dems don't get enough credit for willingness to cut Social Security and Medicare [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)I mean if there's one thing about politicians that you want it's consistency.
It also matters that the President isn't a dictator and even if he wanted to propose, say, raising the retirement age (he has not done that, his proposal is about raising the cap, which some defenders of the top 5% here are against, mind you) he'd need a House and a Senate to sign off on it. The teabagger House wouldn't sign off on raising the cap (Bernie Sanders' proposal) because it would be a bigger hit to the richest people. The Senate would waffle.
So as far as this non-dictator for domestic policy President is concerned, nothing gets done until the next congress, and that's assuming it's a sane one and not as incompetent as the 112th.
But no doubt in my mind he'd raise the retirement age if he could get a reasonable budget out of it. (Again: he can't pass law, but he'd sign a law if it was passed, I don't see him pushing for a raise to the retirement age.)