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In reply to the discussion: Is it me, or is Obama as bad a "listener" about Social Security as Bush was about invading Iraq? [View all]Raksha
(7,167 posts)I voted for Obama in 2008 but NOT in 2012, because I knew he was going to do this. It's been "the plan" all along. I did a little research, and discovered that cutting entitlements was always on his agenda, even before he was elected the first time. I got raked over the coals by my fellow "progressives" every time I tried to confront them with his hypocrisy. Before every single one of his "capitulations," the faux liberals were always telling me to take a "wait and see" approach. Yeah sure, wait until it's a done deal, wait until it's TOO LATE!!! It happened over and over again.
I mostly stayed away from DU during the election, because I couldn't oppose Obama openly here and yet I couldn't support him and knew I wasn't going to vote for him. After a lifetime of voting a straight Democratic ticket, I voted for the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein. It helped that I live in California, which was solidly in the Obama camp, so I didn't have to feel guilty about throwing my vote to Mitt Romney.
I'm 67 years old, and my SS widow's pension is my sole source of income. I'm one of those seniors Obama is throwing under the bus, just as I knew he would. So now I finally get the grim satisfaction of being able to say "I told ya so!" which is the sole reason for this post.
Big, big thrill.