AARP calculator to see how much your benefits would be cut with chained CPI

[eridani]

http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-04-2012/youve-earned-a-say.html?cmp=YEAS_MAR1_012?3e3ea140


Tell Washington: Don’t Use My Medicare and Social Security as a Bargaining Chip

Includes a calculator so you can see how much your benefits would be cut.

http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-04-2012/youve-earned-a-say.html?cmp=YEAS_MAR1_012?3e3ea140
Although Washington averted an economic crisis, politicians are starting a new round of budget talks, and cuts to your Medicare and Social Security benefits are on the table. Some lawmakers want to trade cuts to your benefits for other government spending. Others want to cut them to reduce the deficit. AARP is calling on the president and Congress to leave cuts to your hard-earned benefits out of any budget deal. Make your voice heard.

Sign the Social Security Petition

Sign the Medicare Petition

[DrDan]

1. I stand to lose only $18,049 over the next 20 years

not sure why anyone would claim it is a cut to SS . . . obviously only a minor "tweak"

[eridani]

2. Similar results here.

Please keep pushing your representatives on this.

[RB TexLa]

3. That is very misleading. It's not that you will lose that amount. That's the amount of increase

you won't get. There isn't a reason to distort that. Why be dishonest.

[liberal_at_heart]

4. It's the same thing. Either way it is money you don't have to buy food and medicine.

The American people are smart enough to figure that out.

[RB TexLa]

5. No it's not the same thing. It's two differnt things.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. Yeah, okay. Prices for food, medicine, education, everything goes up

dramatically every year, but I'm sure the American people won't miss the increase. Do you really think the American people are that stupid?

[DrDan]

7. "you won't get" - pretty well sums up a loss

[MadrasT]

8. That right there is some twisted right wing doublespeak. n/t