Brass Tacks 2.0... Would YOU Support ANY Democrat That Proposes Cutting SS & Medicare Benefits ???

[JDPriestly]

87. Because the people between 1/3 and 1/2 still fall gradually below the poverty line.

It does not work. The 1/3 gets subsidies already. If you lower the benefit at all, millions fall below the line and become eligible. The paperwork burden on the US government is just not worth the chained CPI. Plus you upset seniors and their families. It really is not a good idea.

And then there is the fact that in Los Angeles or New York City you can hardly rent a room for $500 per month. In fact a horrible landlord down the street was renting tiny little rooms (around 20 of them) with a shared bath that he had carved out of a house built for one family, charging and getting $500 per month per room.

Seniors with that kind of money have to rely on government assistance if they are to survive in big cities. The chained CPI puts the burden of paying for Bush's wars and tax cuts for the rich on the least capable of defending themselves including helpless seniors in nursing care.

No. No. No.