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In reply to the discussion: I hold a straight forward opinion: Obama offered moving to Chained CPI because he's open to it [View all]plethoro
(594 posts)man--both extremely rich--discussing the accuracy of an inflation index that many on the left and the seniors themselves (and I work with hundreds of these people daily) saying that even the index used now is inadequate. Then we have a promise of a 5% kick to be made that will affect people sometime in the indefinite future, a time I'm not even sanguine will occur. What I think is that this is just a massage technique to make the supposed change be more palatable. I think Obama wants to cut Social Security and I also speculate that he will be discussing other more drastic changes to Social Security (like means-testing) early next year. Why didn't the President say that he was going after a change in the cpi index prior to election? I mean would this not still make him appear to really be thinking of the country by suggesting something that they ostensibly think goes against their wishes? Not everyone in the country looks at things logically like you appear to do. At the place I do volunteer work, which is an Alzheimer's facility, the residents of all four floors are now scared shitless of having their social security cut. Is this President throwing out the baby with the bathwater? And what is his real agenda.