Esquire: The Grand Sellout Emerges

[JDPriestly]

18. Chained CPI is extremely dishonest on the part of the President.

He just sold Congress on the idea of cutting payroll taxes. In other words he just PURPOSELY AND KNOWINGLY REDUCED THE AMOUNT OF TAXES BEING PAID INTO THE SOCIAL SECURITY FUND.

And now he seems to think that Social Security is in trouble and needs to be cut.

You can't have it both ways, Mr. President. Either you should not have cut the payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare taxes) or you can claim that Social Security is in financial trouble and seniors need to take cuts.

This is duplicitous. We worked for you. We voted for you, Mr. President, trusting that you would protect Social Security and Medicare. You are double-crossing us.

This is cowardly on your part. Just cowardly.

We want to go over the cliff. We want to see cuts in military spending -- big cuts. Our military is way overextended as it is.

No cuts to Social Security and restore the obligation to pay the full payroll tax.