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In reply to the discussion: Here's what 12 years of chained-CPI would have done to a typical SS benefit. (Graph included.) [View all]reformist2
(9,841 posts)4. Can't we get 40 Dem senators (+ Bernie) to filibuster this???
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Here's what 12 years of chained-CPI would have done to a typical SS benefit. (Graph included.) [View all]
reformist2
Dec 2012
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How do "we" nix it if that's what Obama proposes it, Dems back him up, and the Repugs jump on it?
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#1
By 2032 the economy will look a lot different and we don't really know how.
kelliekat44
Dec 2012
#43
Too late to nix it. Obama put it on the table. It will not be taken back now.
RomneyLies
Dec 2012
#2
Yep. This is scary stuff. Imagine a senior trying to live on $800 a month today.
reformist2
Dec 2012
#13
My wife is a retired RN who has been at times a Home Health nurse and a Hospice nurse.
Mr.Bill
Dec 2012
#16
You got a pay cut the day you your boss said all the dollars YOU earn belong to him or her.
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#37
Anyone who says that they support the President for doing this, because the President is a
truedelphi
Dec 2012
#24
The whole idea is bogus - it's supposed to be a consumer price index, not a survivor price index.
reformist2
Dec 2012
#35
We are already being screwed. The inflation factor they are talking about doesn't include food or
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#38