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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWashington Post headline: Obama to drop Social Security REFORMS from latest budget request
Note how much of the media describes cuts as "REFORMS". Why is everything that hurts working people considered reforms?President Obama will drop from his latest budget request a plan to use a less-generous measure of inflation when calculating Social Security cost-of-living increases, according to White House officials.
The contentious proposal, which was included in last year's White House budget, was offered in hopes of persuading House Republicans to cut a deal to reduce federal deficits, but such a deal never materialized. Meanwhile, congressional Democrats opposed the plan and urged him to take it off the table.
One official said the offer would remain on the table in the event of new budget talks but that it would not be part of the presidents formal spending blueprint for fiscal 2015.
The official was not authorized to comment by name on the budget plan before its March 4 release and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
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Washington Post headline: Obama to drop Social Security REFORMS from latest budget request (Original Post)
Douglas Carpenter
Feb 2014
OP
At least they didn't say "Obama drops plan to strengthen Social Security"...
PoliticAverse
Feb 2014
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. At least they didn't say "Obama drops plan to strengthen Social Security"...
Pelosi Says Chained CPI Would Strengthen Social Security
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/12/20/pelosi-says-chained-cpi-would-strengthen-social-security/
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. The M$M does whatever their paymasters tell them to do.
They will call it any word their employers tell them to call it. We have no objective mass media on cable in America. You have to go the Intertubes to find any real, unbiased news.
jsr
(7,712 posts)3. I commend the President for heeding repeated calls to grant mercy to the old and crippled
redqueen
(115,103 posts)4. Spin, spin, spin...
What's the nickname WaPo used to have? Unquotable Rag?
jsr
(7,712 posts)6. It's now Jeff Bezos' personal newspaper
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)5. At least he is learning how to start a negotiation?
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)7. another