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In reply to the discussion: OK, thanks to DUers I think I'm seeing a "Shock Doctrine" pattern here........ [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)to chain SS to CPI? Obama is already said he's in favor of that. Some estimates I've read stated that this would cut an SS pensioner by 30% if he/she lives into his mid 80s and up. Not to mention the fact that it's messing WITH a program that's worked as well as ANYTHING in the world for the last 8 decades. And as another poster stated below, quite a bit of the subsidy money going to the insurance industry FROM the ACA will be cut from the Medicare budget. Because they had to make the ACA revenue neutral.
As to the TPP, the real problem is that no one in the public actually KNOWS what's in it. And NAFTA hasn't really shown "free trade" to be such a good thing. And as far as worker protections, from a few things I've read any worker protections put in by nations could cause said nations to be sued by the multinationals for lost profits. But some of the things that HAVE been leaked are horrendous.
As to the pipeline, a LOT of the AFL-CIO is predicated on short term thinking. I'm a fan of the working class. That's not necessarily the AFL-CIO.