Obama: I will not make cuts to Social Security (w/ video)

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Obama: I will not make cuts to Social Security (w/ video)

by CitizenOfEarth

In this Youtube video, Obama boldly silences critics who say he is going to make a dirty deal with Republicans to make cuts to Social Security.

I for one, look forward to Obama living up to his promise. He said these words to reassure me that a vote for him would be a vote for the continuation of the New Deal, not its demise. I believed him. I voted for him. Now it's his turn.

H/T to Senator Bernie Sanders for tweeting this video that settles the controversy once and for all.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/05/1199443/-Obama-I-will-not-make-cuts-to-Social-Security-w-video

Sanders Statement on Chained CPI
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022618445

[djean111]

1. Of course, what you or I think of as "making cuts to Social Security" may be totally different

from what Obama thinks that means - after all, Pelosi and Obama's press secretary (I think) have said that chained CPI is a GOOD thing and would "strengthen" Social Security.
Kind of telling that strengthening Social Security by raising the cap has never been floated by the White House.
We have been Overton Windowed up the kazoo, methinks.

[upaloopa]

2. Settles the controversy? Did Obama make that

video this week?
I'll feel it is settled after the dust clears and sequestration is a thing of the past.
I want to be a happy clappy Obama supporter but 67 years on this earth have taught me not to count chickens before they are hatched.

[demwing]

3. All you have to do is define "cuts"

If that definition does not include a reduction in growth, then Chained CPI isn't a cut. Paradox resolved!

[Nite Owl]

4. The President seems

to desperately want chained CPI. He has brought it up over and over. I remember him once calling it a 'tweak'.
The main thing is it is a cut to benefits and he can't/won't own up to it. It makes me feel that he thinks we are all dumb and will just meekly accept his proposal. If that is the case he's being deceitful.

[winter is coming]

10. Chained CPI is not a cut

in the same sense that "oil" isn't what's being spilled in Arkansas.

[uponit7771]

5. I wonder what the 14 campaign slogens will be

[bullwinkle428]

6. No grey hair! Was this made in 2007?

[kelliekat44]

7. When you can show me a SS benefit that is less than it is now, I'll agree. nt

[HereSince1628]

8. Parsing the definition of 'cut'

it had to happen.

[LongTomH]

9. Here's the update to the DKos post:

[Update: 2:05 PM Since this diary somehow got on the Rec List, I should disclose: I do believe Obama IS planning to make SS and Medicare cuts. This video clearly shows Obama did a bait and switch on people who voted for him. So yeah, I'm pissed.]

[canoeist52]

11. Heh, this is at least two years old. Things change.