Huffpost: 2011 Biden led negotiations where SS cuts were on the table.

[Hoyt]

37. We are fools if we don't at least look at some alternatives regarding SS. We can reject them, but to

just say "No way" sounds too much like GOPers to me, and gets us nowhere.

Fact is, if we had adopted the so-called Catfood Commission recommendations, people on the lower end of the SS benefits scale would have gotten a significant boost in payments. Instead, they got nothing and are still in the same boat now.

If the Chained-CPI had been implemented, as a trade-off for boosted payments for those on the low-end, there were several years that payments would have gone up more than under the CPI used currently for SS. Why, because the Chained-CPI is an Index. An Index fluctuates.

Fact, is -- despite the denials and proclamations that all that is needed is to boost the cap -- in 14 or so years, we are going to be facing an automatic cut in SS benefits of over 20%.

At that point, what do you think is going to happen if GOPers control just one House of Congress or Presidency. Worse, what if they control Congress and Presidency.