Why do Obama and Pelosi keep perpetuating the mandate to reform Social Security and Medicare?

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13. Don't unions need one another? Yeah, it's not the right tack for some of them, but others

don't care as much, because their jobs are the most secure there are and, yet, as contracts come up even the well to do unions DO care about rising medical costs, amongst other things.

If teachers get thrown under the bus by other unions, what happens with these relationships?

Now, we might ad nurses too, as the AFLCIO supports, or might support - it's not quite clear yet - the Keystone Pipeline, which nurses oppose and if there's anyone connected to the professional futures of this country it's the medical field, who are informed enough to know the damage that austerity will cause the economy.

I don't know enough to sort all of this out, but the general parameters of the demographic responses that PO NEEDS in order to stand off the Republicans assault on Soc Sec & Medicare could be amongst some of these relationships.