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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey're now pivoting from "Chained CPI isn't a done deal!1!!" to "It's not so bad!"
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Autumn
(45,120 posts)nothing is what you use. Fuck that shit.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)From "stfu it'll never happen!" to "stfu it could be worse!".
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
jsr
(7,712 posts)Larkspur
(12,804 posts)Keep up the pressure on them.
As Fredrick Douglas said, "Power gives up nothing without a fight."
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)If people weren't going to die because of this, it might actually be funny.
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)then it will be that you just want a pony.
Yup. Like...clockwork.
PB
soryang
(3,299 posts)I've heard it all now.
Electing Obama was the lesser of two evils per the pundits. Now cutting social security via the "chained CPI" is the lesser of two evils.
I mean, after all the president could have conceded age 67 as the age of qualification for social security benefits. So we should be glad that our social security benefits will only be cut a limited amount this year, and a little more the year after that, and so on, and so on, so that you only get poorer and poorer gradually with the greatest poverty occuring at the greatest age.
So the president gives up tax increases to 400k income per year, doesn't even discuss a financial transactions tax, lowers taxes on corporations which is neo liberal bullshit, doesn't even discuss raising the cap on social security taxes, doesn't talk about increasing the limited 15 percent tax on unearned income such as capital gains, dividend income, or hedge fund capital gains, and the "lesser evil" is cutting social security?
When are Americans gonna get their heads out of their asses?
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)...it's not true".
And now we're hearing that it could be much worse, that it's progressives' fault for letting Republicans take the House in 2010, etc.
Next up: you should have held his feet to the fire.
There are those who will ensure that they support the President, no matter what he says or does. In my opinion, that shows a real lack of character. If you agree with President Obama about everything he's said and done while in office, you're either not paying much attention, or you're hero-worshiping.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)DearHeart
(692 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Cult of personality.
It's just as bad when bushies did it.
Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)Chained CPI never scared me all that much.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Skittles
(153,321 posts)YES INDEED
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)I'm trying to come up with a good generic name for Romney. I think Hitler von Rockefeller is my favorite so far.
"So you think it would have been better under Hitler von Rockefeller?!!"
PB
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)PB
NashvilleLefty
(811 posts)A. it's not a done deal.
B. it wouldn't be so bad if it were.
Obviously, you don't understand what the Chained CPI really is. It's really not so bad. You should probably educate yourself before you post threads like this.