If you're wondering what Obama gets in exchange for Chained CPI...

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8. No, what the 1% want is to continually

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Drive the political discussions in this binary way. So that we do not have choices.

Look at last Nov's "election" -- Vote for Rmoney and get an authentic captain of Industry, who will screw us over, but will also take away women's access to reproductive health care. So then you end up feeling YOU HAVE to vote for Obama as although he is a willing puppet to the Captains of Industry, glad to continue the notion that the Big Bankers get it all, and are never going to be penalized for serious crimes, while they steal from us, he will at least give women access to health care.

Same with notion of "We will either privatized the Social Security monies or else, still evil but less evil, let's just do CPI."

We Americans need to insist that we can no longer survive if offered up these binary choices. We need to resurrect the idea that there needs to be at all times five or six choices for major issues.

Every nation that has backed away from endless wars without end, that has decent health care for its citizens, that insists on food safety (ie no Gm food) is also a nation wherein people demand more than "Evil or Less Evil" as their choices.

BTW many of us have already lost on Social Security as the date we an retire has been rolled back two years, so that the contract we signed off on when we entered the work force has been invalidated. And for that I think we need to seriously consider not voting for anyone who has ever been part of hurting this Social Program. it was a program founded by a damn Democrat, one Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

And if that program needs to be switched around now so that the Treasury make up for the Fed Reserve banker loans Geithner/Bernanke agreed to, then maybe it is time to say that we no longer have real Democrats in this party - it is just made up of sheep inside Wolves Clothing.