Been Away from Here. Got Apathetic. Then Got Pissed. Had to come back and vent.

[BlueCaliDem]

183. And it sounds as if you're a faux-Dem to me.

I'm not claiming S.S. is in trouble. The Board of Trustees at the SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION are claiming it is.

Again, for the hard of reading/hearing/learning . . . the C-CPI is NOT a cut to what seniors are receiving. It's a minute cut to the growth rate of basic benefits. Since most seniors haven't received a cost of living adjustment under the current formula since 2010, do YOU consider this a cut to social security? Because you'd have to if you're going to claim until you're blue in the face that the chained CPI is a cut. Otherwise, that would make you a hypocrite, wouldn't it?

I don't play the race card. That's your sensitivity speaking. If the shoe don't fit, don't worry about it. But you make mention of it in a very defensive way and that says more than your hollow words.

Anyone who doesn't want S.S. changed or improved, and believe that NO Democrat should even suggest it, don't know shit. President Carter, with a Democratic House and Senate, CUT basic benefits. President Clinton, by signing into law a new taxation for social security recipients making above $34k per year, CUT basic benefits. But ya'll forgot about those in your zeal to attack this Democratic President who is merely offering a proposal for the tiniest cut (0.3%} to how the cost of living adjustment is calculated, without doing the necessary research, without acknowledging that S.S. is, at least, in trouble, without believing what the S.S.A. Trustees are warning about, and without acknowledging the year that social security will have to cut benefits by 25% has been moved eight years earlier.