Never. Gonna. Happen.

[stanchaz]

27. All it takes for it to "happen"...is for good men to do nothing

No matter what you call it: A cut is a cut is a CUT. And it will HURT.
Those who retire today would get $650 less a year when they are 75 ....and over $1,100 less a year when they reach age 85. This, when more than two-thirds of senior beneficiaries rely on Social Security for over HALF their income. Maybe the President needs to revise his stump speech to “”if you work hard, and play by the rules” .....then you’ll get shafted!
Come on, Mr. Obama: Do you REALLY want to throw Grandma off the train?
Sir, do you REALLY want to throw disabled vets receiving benefits...under the bus?
Is THIS the Barack Obama that we voted for? ...the Barack we BELIEVED in?


This is not a "Grand Bargain” , Sir. Your chained C.P.I. proposal
(which decreases annual Social Security & Disabled Veteran Cost of Living COLAS)
is nothing but a GRAND BETRAYAL.
It’s a betrayal of the promises, a betrayal of the ideals, and a betrayal of the programs that Democrats have fought for ....long and hard ....over the years.
The elderly, struggling thru their final years on earth --they deserve better than this!
Those disabled by war or disease -- they deserve better than this!
And those blameless children and orphans receiving benefits --they deserve better than this!
And we --we as a society-- surely deserve better than this.
The annual COLA is critically important to millions --and not only to retirees. The administration’s budget cuts cost-of-living increases for current and future Social Security beneficiaries by $130 billion over 10 years, and much more in future years. Lowering the presently insufficient COLA... with a "Chained C.P.I. " - is a discredited and dishonest way of calculating annual cost-of-living increases that does not keep up with actual costs, and eats into benefits of recipients. Switching to a chained CPI will permanently cut COLAS , and the longer you live, the worse it gets. Call it what it is - plain and simple: a cut. People will suffer. Real people. Real suffering. Real pain.
And what’s worse is the fact is that Social Security doesn’t contribute a dime to the deficit. It is funded by payroll taxes, and currently enjoys a $2.7 trillion surplus, enough to fund the program without any changes until 2033. Social Security is a regressive flat tax, like a retail tax.  It is the same rate for everyone regardless of income, and at present it is it is capped at $113,700. But...on income above that level,the rich don’t have to pay Social Security tax. There’s a simple solution to making it even more solvent: Raise -oe ELIMINATE_ the cap on the Social Security payroll tax for higher income earners. And secondly, pass the immigration reform bill, bringing 12 million legal, younger workers into the system.
Don't make me ASHAMED of being a lifelong Democrat,and your supporter, Mr. President --
by compromising away your basic principles, your promises, and your fundamental ideals.
REAL Democrats don’t cut Social Security. Heck, they CREATED it. When one out of four profitable U.S. corporations doesn’t pay a penny in taxes, ask THEM to do their fair share first- before you even THINK of cutting Social Security! Don’t try to balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable, and “the least of these”. Don’t use the old, the young, the poor, and the disabled as pawns in these political games ..while the super-rich continue to laugh all the way to the bank, and their off shore tax havens. That’s not compromise or compassion - it’s capitulation. It’s immoral, shameful, and wrong to ask senior citizens, veterans and the disabled to pay for the greed and mistakes of the top 1% -- at a time when corporations and the wealthiest are not paying their fair share of taxes, despite soaring profits. For the debt we have comes from a decade of tax cuts for the wealthy, unlimited spending on foreign wars, and a recession caused by unregulated Wall Street speculation and greed. Are we to then punish the victims even more, America? Is that what we’ve come to?
Any person in Congress who votes for this proposal will live to regret it -and remember it- because WE will not forget it: ....NOT in the primaries ......NOT in he media .... NOT at the fund raisers ...and most definitely- NOt in the polling booth on Election Day!
Unfortunately, you haven’t shown yourself to be much of a fighter, Mr. President. 
Well, you've got a HELL of a fight on your hands now, from your own Party, -unless you come to your senses. Year after year, you keep on trying to “compromise” towards the so-called “middle”- while they openly laugh and jeer at you, and keep moving the goalposts to the right. Again, ...and again, ...and again! Stop --- and stand your ground, Mr. Obama! BE the real change that you wanted, and promised. Make us proud and hopeful ....not ashamed, duped, and abandoned. You should be rallying Americans to protect and strengthen our already inadequate Social Security system. For the real crisis that we face isn't that Social Security benefits are too generous; it is that more and more Americans lack the means for a secure retirement. Drop this misguided Chained C.P.I. proposal, Mr. President. For you are better than this. WE are better than this! We cannot -we will not- allow our Social Security system to be chipped away and dismantled inch by inch.