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eridani

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1. Obama has just offered to impose the pro-poverty chained CPI. Contact the White House ASAP!

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 11:23 PM

Dec 2012

This is unconscionable! Social Security does NOT contribute to the deficit!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-boehner-meet-as-debt-talks-intensify/2012/12/17/6b43c24a-4868-11e2-b6f0-e851e741d196_story.html

In pursuit of a compromise, President Obama has offered to slow the growth of Social Security benefits and lowered his demand for new taxes, according to a person familiar with the talks.

But Obama's counteroffer to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) seeks additional stimulus spending and a two-year extension of the federal debt limit, which Republicans have so far opposed.

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Chained CPI Imposes Painful Social Security Benefit Cuts and a Benefit Bump-Up Provides Only Limited [View all] eridani Dec 2012 OP

Obama has just offered to impose the pro-poverty chained CPI. Contact the White House ASAP! eridani Dec 2012 #1

I hope the Democrats shoot this insanity down duffyduff Dec 2012 #2

Evil bullshit, these folks are fucked enough under the current "overly generous" calculation TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #3