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Showing Original Post only (View all)To all those who have been telling us for months . . . [View all]
. . . often in the most condescending manner possible, that this President will never propose Social Security cuts, and who told those of us who were trying to sound the alarm that we were either just chicken-little-sky-is-falling types who just didn't understand eleventy-dimensional chess, or that we somehow "enjoyed" complaining about the President and would seize on any opportunity to do so, since he has now officially proposed those cuts in the form of chained CPI, y'all can start apologizing any day now . . .
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Nope. You are shortsighted, focusing on one little aspect of a much bigger picture.
Hoyt
Apr 2013
#201
So I'm supposed to be happy with the "lesser of two weevils?" Sorry if I feel betrayed by a
firenewt
Apr 2013
#21
It's absurd to claim that the GOP House would refuse to raise the debt ceiling for
Marr
Apr 2013
#131
Is he cajoling anyone about it? I don't think so. And he did offer it up during the fiscal
Maraya1969
Apr 2013
#268
+1000. Despite the howling when Obama was elected twice, the GOP knows it can get all of its
Nay
Apr 2013
#64
Except that, Obama was always going to go after what he calls 'entitlement' programs
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2013
#247
Right. Back in 2004, I said that the Republicans would drive us off a cliff at 60mph
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2013
#52
Agreed - I Have Lost Patience With The Obama Apologists That Inhabit Many Web Forums
cantbeserious
Apr 2013
#2
Well, it seems to me that you're stating your opinions and criticisms quite emphatically.
blue neen
Apr 2013
#160
A signifigant number will also see Medicare cuts in the form of increased costs for Medicare.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#169
some people are already paying close to $350.00 a month just for Medicare alone
CountAllVotes
Apr 2013
#208
No, I think it's been all the usual Nth dimensional chess/brilliant bluff bullshit. /nt
Marr
Apr 2013
#122
I know; crazy, right? And they wonder why people don't give a shit about politics. nt
Nay
Apr 2013
#67
At the same time, let's not pretend Hillary Clinton is some economic progressive.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2013
#227
They are busy genuflecting at their Franklin Mint Obama can do no wrong placards. n/t
L0oniX
Apr 2013
#22
this is nothing new, he's done it before. and like before, nothing will happen.
spanone
Apr 2013
#32
What a disengenous question, you Sunlei, do not know the rules of the exemptions. So your question
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2013
#230
I don't think the republicans will ever go for current plan because of the entire attached package.
Sunlei
Apr 2013
#245
If corporations keep raising the price of consumer goods skyhigh, ss checks could be larger?
Sunlei
Apr 2013
#40
I don't think panic is productive, yell and speak up yes but we have to work with what we have.
Sunlei
Apr 2013
#55
well it is a negotiating tactic, go look at the presidents website. It's not just plain old consumer
Sunlei
Apr 2013
#72
I guess Bernie Sanders doesn't understand political negotiating either . . .
markpkessinger
Apr 2013
#73
hopefully you can manage to save a bit untill 2040 and not have to survive only on a ss check.
Sunlei
Apr 2013
#196
Sweet Jesus Almighty. Let me see if I get this straight. In order to protect the poor, we can't
neverforget
Apr 2013
#132
It makes me frustrated to know that people are willing to sell out principles
neverforget
Apr 2013
#171
"...I wonder whether or not they actually give a shit about children."
WorseBeforeBetter
Apr 2013
#102
What was it bvar posted? "Daddy's gambling with the rent money again.".....
socialist_n_TN
Apr 2013
#143
Maybe you would have like to have seen what Romney and the GOP would have done
liberal N proud
Apr 2013
#105
Not nearly as tired as some of us are of the constant bashing of whoever is in power
liberal N proud
Apr 2013
#207
For all of us of SS age, let's give up the drug coverage we got a few years ago. That'll pay for
Hoyt
Apr 2013
#115
but it doesn't make sense. Making the least pay the most and the most pay the least is
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#150
Those with least have protections. Besides, we all are going to be scraping for a living
Hoyt
Apr 2013
#156
I worship at the altar of Paul Krugman who has a basic disagreement with you on this.
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#158
Krugman has stated that he thinks the repubs just want to get rid of SS and Medicare and
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#197
The problem with the drug benefit was that it wasn't paid for, not that it existed.
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#209
The drug benefit is obviously a problem as long as we have drug companies ripping off
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#212
No. Because CCPI is a form of austerity and it won't work anyway, except to make older
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#240
"Those with least have protections" holy mind fuck. Rmoney said about the same thing. n/t
L0oniX
Apr 2013
#182
what you are advocating for, in an abbreviated form, is austerity. And that is exactly
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#162
Why would Obama need to do that? He will have command of huge amounts of money
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#153
Yawn. Let me know when legislation of this kind hits the President's desk for signature...
OldDem2012
Apr 2013
#195
good question. My "guess" is that he anticipated Boehner's reply which was basically
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#214
It's His Sacrifice To Make However I Think He Sees The Splintering of the GOP to be a Worthy Endgame
Skraxx
Apr 2013
#220
think this thing out, tho. Does SS preservation trump all the social issues in these red
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#221
It seems to me that our big problem in taking back the House is because of redistricting.
CTyankee
Apr 2013
#225