I hold a straight forward opinion: Obama offered moving to Chained CPI because he's open to it

[Tom Rinaldo]

46. The fact is neither of us can safely predict with certainty how variables will play out

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I respect you ProSense in some ways despite and in some ways because of the ways we have sometimes disagreed before. I know we have a fundemental difference in hindsight over whehter or not a public option was possible to get from health care reform. We can honorably agree to dsagree on that, but at one point you were reassuring everyone that Obama wouldn't sign off on any health care reform that didn't include a public option. Obviously you can not assure me now that the final deal won't include a Chained CPI either. It seems you now expect that it won't but there are ample grounds for fearing that it might.

I'll remind you also that nothing has been settled, everything is fluid. You claim that Boehner saved us before, but did he really? I say neither of us will know for sure on that score either, until this all is said and done. What came out of the last discussions was a trillion dollars in spending cuts with no offsetting revenue increases. Instead the Bus tax cuts did not expire as they were scheduled to, they were extended in full, even for the rich, for two additional years. I understand why Obama did that but the fact remains, extending those tax cuts in full rather than allowing them to expire on incomes over $250,000 a year resulted in a loss of about 200 Billion in revenues over that time period, on top of that trillion dollar cut..

Boehner may have "saved us" from cuts in Socoal Security last time, but he got something out of us in return, and the issue still is alive and now officially "on the table" with negotiations still pending. I fell that my concerns are valid, of course I hope that ultimately they will not be validated.