Obama making historic mistake on Social Security

[moonbladem]

The President's proposal to cut the social safety net may someday look as retrograde as Clinton signing DOMA

President Obama reportedly is unveiling a budget using the chained CPI inflation measure to cheat elderly Americans out of the benefits they were promised. In two previous posts I’ve explained the perversity of the current debate about

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[leviicorpus]

I read about his proposals in work on Friday and still the only thing I can think to say is fuck him. Is this not the sort of thing Romney would have done had he won the election (minus the tax hike)?

I don't know why he insists on trying to negotiate with Republicans when, after four years, it should be fairly fucking obvious that they are NEVER going to compromise. It's a waste of time and Obama needs to stop waffling about and put on his foot down on issues that matter most. It's not like he has a re-election to lose anymore. So seriously, fuck him.

ETA: What he needs to do is not cut spending to SS and Medicare, but instead raise or remove the income gap. Boom, problem solved, both programs more than solvent for the foreseeable future.

[leviicorpus]

No argument from me.

[underlankers]

How does that solve the problem of the Baby Boomers retiring and the demographic gap meaning that there will be more retirees than there are workers to support them? Simply throwing money at that problem is not the answer to it.

[underlankers]

TBH, Social Security really does need a change to reflect that people live longer and that the social welfare network in the USA is simultaneously stingy and inefficient. The problem is that the GOP's idea of change is wholesale dismantling of the infrastructure of SS, and the Democratic idea of change is to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that the status quo can keep sticking when there really are things that do need to *change*, and by that I mean *change*, not abolition on ideological reality-rejecting-and-reality-substituting grounds

[romp]

Oh shit. I hadn't heard this.

My first reaction to the 2008 debacle was relief that Bush hadn't gotten his wish to privatize SS.

People need to disconnect their representatives from corporate interests. o.0

[teacup_werewolf]

As someone that is on SSI and on Medicaid I wonder how this will effect me...

[alexvdl]

He still hasn't turned in a budget? Wasn't that due at the beginning of Feb?