Reply #18: Where you gonna move the goal post next? [View All]

[frazzled]

How about this: breaking news from 1 hour ago:

President Barack Obama is set to announce his deficit reduction plan on Monday, and he will avoid making any changes to Social Security, The Wall Street Journal reports.

"As the president has consistently said, he does not believe that Social Security is a driver of our near- and medium-term deficits," spokeswoman Amy Brundage said in a statement to the Journal.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/after-failed-grand-bargain-obama-deficit-plan-to-avoid-social-security-2011-9#ixzz1XzIOoIJn

Social Security, in other words, is NOT on the table in the President's debt reduction plan.


Secondly, every article on the Sanders/DeFazio bill (which by the way, has to make it to the floor in both houses--let's see what Boehner and the boys do with that in the House, eh) states that:

The legislation also follows through on a proposal that President Barack Obama made in 2008 when he was running for the White House.

“Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation’s history. For 76 years, through good times and bad, Social Security has paid out every benefit owed to every eligible American,” Sander said. “The most effective way to strengthen Social Security for the next 75 years is to eliminate the cap on the payroll tax on income above $250,000. Right now, someone who earns $106,800 pays the same amount of money into Social Security as a billionaire. That makes no sense. The Keeping Our Social Security Promises Act will ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security without cutting benefits or raising taxes on the middle class.”

You're going to have to come up with new imaginary things the president will or won't do in the future. Cause I've disproved everything you think he's done in the past. You could at least thank me for setting the record straight. You asked for examples of when he ever supported lifting the cap on income for SS, and I gave you several examples from just this year. So now you want him to prove himself further. I give you the just announced debt reduction plan in which Social Security is kept totally sacrosanct. But I imagine you'll just have more suspicion. That's your problem.