Memory lane--folks in this admin have been looking to cut SS since Nov 2008?

[HereSince1628]

http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx112508.html

Obama’s OMB Head Would Cut Social Security
By Matthew Rothschild, November 25, 2008

Barack Obama’s choice to head the budget office is on record favoring a reduction in Social Security benefits.

On Tuesday, Obama picked Peter Orszag to direct the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Orszag believes that Social Security benefits should be cut back to help balance the Social Security Trust Fund over the next 75 years.

He spells out his views in a paper he wrote with Peter A. Diamond for the Brookings Institute back in 2005, called “Saving Social Security: The Diamond-Orszag Plan.”

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[Palmer Eldritch]

1. Straw meet grasp.

[DJ13]

2. benefits should be cut back to help balance the Social Security Trust Fund

Because the notion of just increasing the cap is not conservative?

[DURHAM D]

3. No - earlier for Obama.

Remember this from January 2007?

"Shushing the Baby Boomers"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/weekinreview/21broder.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1310396691-5ibrSkIblIl6GeqZVjtBtQ