AFL-CIO won't back a deficit deal that cuts Social Security through chained CPI By Joan McCarter

[FogerRox]

The AFL-CIO would not support a bargain, grand or otherwise, that included the cut to Social Security benefits known as chained CPI, two senior staffers told Huffington Post's Dave Jamieson.

"I don't see us supporting a deal that has chained CPI in it," said Bill Samuel, director of government affairs at the AFL-CIO, a close ally in Obama's reelection campaign. "It's a basic cut in benefits for seniors." [...]

"Chained CPI is the biggest dollar cut that anyone in Washington has put on the table in this discussion in a serious way," said Damon Silvers, the AFL-CIO's policy director. "It is clearly the one that would do the most broad-based harm to American families. It is structured in a particularly devious and pernicious way.

"It is not the sort of proposal that any Democrat who [supports] working people wants to be associated with," he added.

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President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been sending clear messages that they'd be open to chained CPI as part of a larger deficit deal. Obama followed up those messages by telling progressive members of Congress that he would only agree to Social Security benefit cuts in the context of a deal in which Republicans accepted new revenue, and that since Republicans aren't budging on revenue there's no danger right now. But there's no question that chained CPI is on the table, which means that now is the time to make it clear how unacceptable it is, rather than waiting until it's too late.

Send an email to the White House telling President Obama to immediately stop proposing any cuts to Social Security.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/15/1194361/-AFL-CIO-won-t-back-a-deficit-deal-that-cuts-Social-Security-through-chained-CPI

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Richard Trumka for President, 2016.

[bvar22]

2. History has proved that when Push comes to Shove, the "management" of the AFL-CIO...

....will support whatever they are told to support,
or lose their "access",
and most favored talking head celebrity status.

They are no longer working for wages,
and KNOW where their Bread is Buttered.

Support the Free Trade guy in the next election?
SURE!....but,...ahhh...whats innit for me?


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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[Dragonfli]

3. Some anti-union TROLL alerted on the first reply

It should explain why it hates unions and/or those that represent them.

[DonCoquixote]

4. nice to see a lien drawn in the sand

about time

[lib2DaBone]

5. A Billion dollars a day to make war...

Nothing to social programs and education.

Does the USA really need 175 military basis around the world?

We must repeal Citizens United... we must take care of America first....

[xtraxritical]

8. Social Security does not contribute one penny to the national debt.

Pelosi should be ashamed, Obama should be ashamed too.

[Babel_17]

6. Followed the link to dailykos, signed the petition (nt)

[limpyhobbler]

7. Let's primary challenge Democrats who vote for COLA cuts.

And let 'em know we plan to do it.

Seriously let 'em know.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[progressoid]

9. AFL-CIO? Who are they?

The admin and the DLCers got union support during the election; now they are done with the unions.

[madfloridian]

10. McJoan's posts are treasures.

I have been forgetting to come to this group.

Can we crosspost into GD? I doubt it.