Civil liberties disappear in the 2012 Democratic platform.

[woo me with science]

197. More deliberate obfuscation. Of course you refuse to address the changes

in civil rights language...and now you obfuscate about benefit cuts.

Obama and Biden have not ruled out either a chained CPI or changes to eligibility ages to Medicare. This language about not changing the Social Security program is often used by defenders of the chained CPI to give the false impression that they do not wish to attack benefits, even though they support doing so *indirectly*...not through changes to the program itself, but through changes to the formula used to calculate benefits.

Obama and Biden need to specifically rule out a chained CPI and changes in eligibility ages, because these are the specific changes they supported as recently as last year.


A chained CPI does not directly change the Social Security PROGRAM. However, it is an indirect method of lowering projected benefits, and it does so even more viciously over time.

Democrats need to demand clarity. The administration proposed a chained CPI last April. Advocates of the chained CPI have often used a word game...denying that the chained CPI is a cut to SS....in order to defend this indirect assault on SS benefits.

Democrats, and all Americans, need assurances that a chained CPI and any other direct OR indirect assault on SS benefits is OFF THE TABLE.


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Playing inflation games with Grandma: The Washington Consensus and the Chained CPI
http://my.firedoglake.com/deanbaker/2012/04/05/playing-inflation-games-with-grandma-the-washington-consensus-and-the-chained-cpi/

The chained CPI is not just a cut. It is also a regressive tax increase.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1445127

The chained CPI....Assumes switching from hamburger to catfood
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=612538&mesg_id=612538

Chained CPI would hurt middle class families and veterans as well as seniors.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/28/1000043/-Chained-CPI-will-hurt-middle-class-families-as-well-as-seniors-veterans