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Egalitarian Thug

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2. Of course it is. They've been screwing with the CPI to hold down benefit increases for decades

Reply to madfloridian (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 04:02 AM

Dec 2012

but now they really need to allow inflation to return in order to keep the fraudulent financial charade going and that's a problem because it would mean poor and old people getting more money.

So this is their solution, instead of raising benefits by the 3 tenths that reflect real costs, chain the people's benefits to a fictitious index that cuts their benefits by 2 tenths.
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Chained CPI is stealth cut to Social Security benefits. Not acceptable. [View all] madfloridian Dec 2012 OP

Any links available that confirm Summer Hathaway Dec 2012 #1

Yes. madfloridian Dec 2012 #8

Of course it is. They've been screwing with the CPI to hold down benefit increases for decades Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #2

kr. as another poster said, it's not even a measure of inflation, it's a measure of how consumers HiPointDem Dec 2012 #3

Exactly. A benefits cut. madfloridian Dec 2012 #9

I went on SS disability this yr. at 55. AnnieK401 Dec 2012 #4

Oh, much lower. They can cheerfully plan this while eating filet mignon, too. At our expense. djean111 Dec 2012 #6

This would be a sellout of our victory at the polls Babel_17 Dec 2012 #5

Seems all good cop bad cop to me. aandegoons Dec 2012 #7

'This is the deal on the table right now, offered by Obama'. ....not true spanone Dec 2012 #10

Yes, it is true. From last December: madfloridian Oct 2013 #12

Tweet him here: @ChrisVanHollen Triana Oct 2013 #11