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In reply to the discussion: It's Official: A Democratic President Offered to Cut Social Security [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)I haven't seen a doctor in about 4 years. My car is 9 years old and approaching 200K miles etc. etc. etc.
I think Soc Sec should be absolutely protected too and I'm not certain that this CPI strategy would even produce enough revenue for them to justify doing that to us. My objections have to do with how CPI is being characterized on the board in a very artificial manner COMPLETELY isolated from everything else that affects many of us just as much or more than CPI.
People are taking the words "Everything is on the table" and reducing that to absolutely NOTHING but CPI.
That's not the case.
For example: We are approaching the deadline for the insurance exchanges. The feds will design and run exchanges for something like about half of the states, because those states LIKE MINE rejected the ACA. What happens in this tax/budget deal WILL affect not only the financial environment in which all of that goes down, but also the political climate in which Americans make use of provisions in the ACA to get the kinds of services and the QUALITY OF CARE (a financial & LABOR issue) that they need. But to watch all of this hysteria over the CPI you'd think absolutely nothing else is happening, nothing else matters. This drama over the CPI is acted out as though whatever else is happening will not be affected POLITICALLY, in 2014 especially, by all of this hysteria, but then, I begin to suspect that that may be one objective here.