http://www.whitehous...d-cpi-protections
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
WH: Chained CPI proposal and protections.
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Riiiight...
What is posted is another deflection mechanism. He gets people to argue about something other than the fact that he opened the door on shredding the safety net all on his own. Just another "it's not so bad" gimmick. Given that he's addicted to "but the nasty republicans wouldn't let me do the good thing" excuse on top of being a serial liar, we're in for a major screwing down the road.
Defend him all you like, he's still a two faced republican plant. Did I mention that I'm not terribly impressed? |
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Tell him you don't like it.
If you help strengthen his hand, by showing that he can't give the Republicans more, you help shape the outcome.
Sign petitions, attend rallys, etc., etc. Tell him what you want. Work to make it better. "Make me do it"... Cheers, Scott. |
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I have.
I've signed at least 4 petitions in the last 10 days and written to my congress-critter and both senators. Brown actually responded but I'm not terribly optimistic. Obama has been trying to work SS into this "Grand Bargain" from the beginning. Now he's using one of his standard design patterns, the "It's not as bad as you think/it could be" routine, to deflect from the fact that it shouldn't have been bad at all. FDR wanted to help but needed the public support. Obama really wants to gut SS and doesn't need public support in the slightest. If we bitch too much, he's got a lot of police and troops to put down the terrorists (that would be the ones bitching.)
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Meh.
It's good you're taking action. Thanks.
But if Obama were so obsessed with really gutting the things that you seem to think he is, it would have happened already. All he had to do was accept the Ryan budget. Many "centrist" Democrats would have been happy to take that as a starting point and tinker with it to show how "reasonable" they are... :-/ There's a thread over at BoomanTribune that goes into this a bit more. I like this guy's comment - http://www.boomantri...10/181636/892#118 ;-) Cheers, Scott. |
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SSDD
This is a design pattern. We've seen it before. He preemptively concedes the thing he wants to screw us on, and later insists that he just HAD to do it. He gets a couple "serious" pundits quacking about it, and shortly his apologists are stating that anybody not getting on board are whining or purity freaks. Wash, rinse, repeat. He's not fast, but he gets what he wants. That generally means we get screwed; he's definitely not working for us unless some of us are REALLY rich.
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huh?
you been sleeping? He already got that
That means forcing the Republicans to accept changes to the tax code that make the well-off pay more. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Not really. That was just a little piece.
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pulling the plug on shrub tax cuts for the +450k crowd
is a little piece? I suppose you want to pull the plug on all of those who make over 50k a year.
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Heh. Nice try. :-)
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Predictable.
And not just by me.
http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=sJeFrqBJF6E Ooops. Maybe NSFW. It's less than 30 seconds, though. ;0) |
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And the longer form, but not a superfluous word either..
http://www.youtube.c...feature=endscreen
Really miss George; of all the BS-excoriating Masters who've left us recently--George made it concise, complete and (most-often) utterly Indisputable: We're. Fucked. and the odds of becoming unFucked [even in a toddler's actuarial lifetime] are as near-zero as, the likelihood of The Vatican emulating Anthony Quinn (in The Shoes of the Fisherman ... ... ... let me know when they start returning the spoils to the marks, eh?) ..er, that's marks ... not Marx, Comrade. But Confucius pre-dated George by some eons: IF.. a society allows language to become corrupted: [FAIL] ... OK he used a few other words/same thing. |
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Van Jones chimes in.
Progressives must be willing to reform programs such as Social Security, precisely because they are so important. The question is how? There are better solutions that the president could champion. For example, we could shore up Social Security for decades by raising the cap on taxable income -- so that it is not just poor and middle-class folks whose entire paychecks are taxed. http://www.cnn.com/2...ex.html?hpt=hp_t3 |