I wish the President would just stay on vacation until January 1st...

[Doctor_J]

40. Save your typing, sabrina

Please explain this game to me and to the Progressive Caucus, the Unions, the Progressive Orgs, Nancy Pelosi who thinks it's a great idea btw, AARP, SS advocacy groups, Alan Grayson, Bernie Sanders and the millions of SS beneficiaries who must all be too stupid to see why a Dem President would play games with THEIR money, scare them to death which is cruel, and why all of them combined are too stupid to understand what you claim to be a fact.

The KoolAid addicts are too thick to get this. No matter how Republican/elitist a policy this president advocates, they are just too unbalanced to see the truth. It was the same way 4 years ago when Obama campaigned on a Public Option, then threw it off the table when Big Insurance came calling after the election, and we ended up with insurance mandates that codify their ghoulish 20% profits, instead of Medicare For All like the civilized countries have.

I can seriously not name a single left-of-center/Dem/populist policy that this administration has fought for. Even the Heritage Foundation applauded his 2010 budget as "the final triumph of Reaganomics". And despite all of the bluster and chess bullshit, SS benefits are going to be cut, and in order for that to happen, Obama is going to have to approve that cut. The upcoming cuts are completely voluntary - there is no crisis and SS doesn't add a penny to the deficit. I expect Boner and McTurtle to try to kill seniors; they're Repukes. I expect a president with a (D) after his name to refuse to go along with such savagery. This one will not.