The Nation absolutely NAILS IT re: Obama and Social Security

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44. As a concession.

Without concession the result is stalemate, and a guarantee that for at least the next two years we'll continue to lurch from one debilitating crisis to the next, while granting the House Republicans two more years to play their dangerous game of chicken and to create mischief, (see the "Monsanto Provision).

Maybe the proposed COLA adjustment has nothing to do with the budget (although, it must surely affect the government's yearly cash flow) but to House Republicans, many of whom are unquestionably not guided by logic or reason (see "UN Agenda 21" legislative proposals,) it defuses their argument that the president and the Democrats are intransigent over "entitlement spending".

I'm not diminishing the importance of reduced SS benefits to many people, but something has to be conceded or there will be no agreement with the consequences being as described above.