Obama is wrong on Social Security. [View all]
What Obama lost in terms of the trust of seniors when he stuck his third finger in the wind on this one he will never regain. This was a double-cross, a betrayal of huge proportions for people trying to get by on less than the average Social Security benefit. Obama's third finger raised high and mighty for every over-65er to see. Ah!
For millions of seniors, the chained CPI will mean having to fill out a myriad of forms and baring their entire financial and social inadequacy to the government just to pay rent and eat.
Sounds easy when you are 25, but even short of dementia, most seniors become confused over time. Time to fill out forms or talk to a social worker or someone at the seniors' center rolls around again, maybe a trip to the bank or a call from a bill collector and they panic: Will I be accused of lying or cheating? Have I got this right?
Even if the Republicans do not accept Obama's cheap kick in the you-know-what to seniors, most over 65s feel like crying right now or will when they realize what this may mean for their futures.
Chained CPI is not the last cut, not the final attack against Social Security that will be proposed. Wall Street wants this money, just like they wanted the money for our kids, for our schools. Seniors will become the whipping boys that teachers have been. Some 90-year-old who can't balance his checkbook any more and claims to have more or less money than he really does will make the headlines. I can see it now -- Shocking welfare fraud: 90-year-old grandfather sentenced to two years. $30 more in his account than he admitted. You think that is a joke, but to that 90-year-old senior who used to be an accountant and run his business and can't add any more, it's a matter of dignity. And it happens.
Obama should be ashamed of himself. Our parents and grandparents deserve better than this.
I'm active in politics. But I'm beginning to wonder whether the whole thing is a hoax.
How can Obama propose cuts to Social Security (no matter what he calls them) and claim to be a president in a democracy when it is so obvious that the one thing that a vast majority of people in our so-called democracy believe is that Social Security should not be cut in any way shape or form.
What kind of a "democrat" small "d" is Obama anyway that he would even propose cuts to Social Security upon a pretense of "compromise" with Republicans.
This is wrong, wrong, wrong. I'm voting no confidence in Obama.
(I posted this as an answer and a couple of people asked me to post it as an OP. I am obliging.)
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