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Showing Original Post only (View all)President Obama Offered More Cuts To Social Security Benefits Than To The Pentagon [View all]
Last edited Thu Dec 20, 2012, 10:50 AM - Edit history (1)
This is all that needs to be said about the state of how bad these deals are
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The cuts to Social Security benefits under such a recalculation would amount to about $112 billion over ten years.
Let's put this in perspective. In the offer Obama gave to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), he also put $100 billion of Pentagon spending cuts on the table for the same period.
That means that Obama offered to cut a program that doesn't add a penny to the deficit -- Social Security -- by more than the single largest drain on discretionary spending, the Pentagon.
Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/president-obama-offered-more-cuts-to-social-security-benefits-than-to-the-pentagon/
Update, if you're a redditor I put it here also
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/15616u/bad_priorities_president_obama_offered_more_cuts/
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Report1212
Dec 2012
OP
My members of Congress are ethical, honest people. The problem is the President.
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#9
Yes. It does. And the money has already been given to the rich in the form of the Bush
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#19
Almost all of our politicians are bought! The fix is in either way. Lets hope the Senate will
Dustlawyer
Dec 2012
#14
Obama just LOWERED, yes, lowered the FICA taxes -- also known as payroll taxes.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#20
And, the tradition among Democratic presidents has been to not get involved in primaries.
byeya
Dec 2012
#35
Clinton was something of a fraud as well....It really has little to do with Chicago. n/t
whathehell
Dec 2012
#42
He said that "in the 1980's" he would have been a moderate republican. I think he's one now.
whathehell
Dec 2012
#25