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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama has a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by more than 4 trillion
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President Obama has a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by more than 4 trillion (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Mar 2013
OP
If it includes cuts to programs that people have earned by working all of their lives....
OldDem2012
Mar 2013
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MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)1. Including Chained CPI
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)2. with austerity for working families.
The progressive caucus has a plan that does not pay for the excesses of 30 years of plutocratic mismanagement with cuts to social programs that working families have paid into and depend on.
http://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/2012/03/congressional-progressive-caucus-fiscal-year-2013-budget-details
Say no to austerity. It has failed everywhere it has been imposed.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)3. If it includes cuts to programs that people have earned by working all of their lives....
...forget it. There are way too many other programs to cut first.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)4. Using GDP predictions 10 years out.
That's funny. I would like to see those predictions.
msongs
(67,395 posts)5. dick cheney: "deficits don't matter". nt
forestpath
(3,102 posts)6. Since when is hurting the elderly, sick and vulnerable "balanced"?