Are you sick of getting hosed at every turn?

[MannyGoldstein]

80. All that I predicted is that Obama - and other Democrats - would try to cut Social Security

Not really a prediction, though - they were telling us that, loud and clear. The President, in particular, put all sorts of things into place that were clearly designed to force cuts - Simpson-Bowles, having Tim Geithner use fudged numbers to show that Social Security is not financially perfect, etc.

I hoped that I was wrong.

As to whether it will actually work, and SS will be cut - I don't think I've predicted anything other than it has a much better chance of getting cut once some Democrats are trying to do so. But there are a fair number of good Democrats who won't enable it, and people are getting increasingly upset now that they understand that "strengthening" is a code word for "handing the Trust Fund to the 1%", and there's finally some pushback.