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In reply to the discussion: "Chained CPI" Americans (across the board) GET IT: [View all]NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)9. Unfortunately, the people are powerless to prevent it from happening.
Conservative Dems (of which there are far too many) and their GOP counterparts will have their way on this issue no doubt and, after many decades of wistful thinking, finally succeed in seriously wounding a social program they despise. Gutting Social Security and Medicare are the golden ticket that "fiscal cliff" talks were designed for.
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Thanks. I'm disturbed though that even as many as more than a third of Americans approve.
Cleita
Dec 2012
#1
I think the fact that Americans are not being fooled, as was intended btw, by
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#32
We've already endured one reworking of the CPI to our detriment and it's clear that
byeya
Dec 2012
#7
You do not believe your own cynicism, if you did you'd not have called and signed at all.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#15
Well, one thing that might change the picture you see, the threat which will be
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#37
From an inside source: they are fully aware, they don't care, they are elitists, but they can be
grahamhgreen
Dec 2012
#38