The offer of the Chained CPI is a 'Brilliant Strategy'! Could someone explain this please?

[Demo_Chris]

52. Respectfully, that's ludicrous.

Yes, Social Security might always on the table as a topic of discussion, but CUTTING Social Security is absolutely not. In fact, it's never on the table. It practically taboo. Congressmen would rather discuss almost anything other than this, and the reason is that even suggesting such a thing is widely (and correctly) viewed as the political third rail.

So again, no, Congressmen do NOT casually discuss cutting Social Security. Instead they play word-games, and even that's a bad idea. NO ONE wants to cut Social Security. Just ask them and they'll tell you. They want to SAVE it! They just want to juggle the numbers and fuck with the names and hope no one notices. Or they make changes aimed like a Bushmaster at future recipients, with the promise to current beneficiaries that their cash is secure -- and if their kids and grandkids are screwed what of it, they never call anyway.

But cuts? No way! The program doesn't pay enough as it is, there is no freaking room to cut benefits and everyone knows it. Everyone knows it, except Obama. The guy who just a MONTH ago won reelection promising to be the White Knight Guardian of the Social Security Grail, is now leading the GOP Crusade to toss it to the pigs.

So now, NOW, it's on the table. Thanks to the guy we just reelected it's forever on the table. The GOP didn't bring it up, the leader of the Democrat party did. You know... the "Radical Leftist Socialist." Even HE thinks we need to cut Social Security, and if the radical leftist thinks we need to make these cuts boy do we ever need to make these cuts. In fact, now that I think about it, the GOP has a point. Maybe they're right! If even our champion President Obama thinks that we need to cut Social Security, then wouldn't you say that some significant and immediate cuts are called for?

Right?

Right! I think all of us, Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives, can agree on this. And it took a leader, a uniter like Obama, to show us the way. My only complaint (and I admit that this is unimportant in the face of the Bipartisan Statesmanship like Obama has demonstrated) is that he spent the last year lying his fucking ass off. But hey, that's okay too. He's great with kids.