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Is "Chained CPI" what happens when your powder is too dry? (Original Post)
Bandit
Apr 2013
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No. You get chained CPI when you are a PRAGMATIST who knows your base has nowhere to go.
HereSince1628
Apr 2013
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Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)1. well, at least that's what gets proposed when the powder is dry.
But there are those who are not going to take it.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)2. LMAO!!!
Thanks for the memories...
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)3. No. You get chained CPI when you are a PRAGMATIST who knows your base has nowhere to go.
Obama cannot be measured on an axis of left-right politics. It's clear that he doesn't care about left-right politics.
He is a person dedicated to making a deal through compromise.
This requires complete detachment from ideologies and incrementalism.
Making the GRAND DEAL is the GRAND objective in pragmatism.
As a pragmatic compromiser Obama is absolutely MAGNIFICIENT, yet completely detached from the desire to actually resist the politicians who desire most to destroy Great Society and New Deal social security networks.
For Obama a compromise is ALWAYS the answer, because the DEAL is the important outcome, not its details.
msongs
(67,361 posts)5. people who stand for nothing will fall for anything. nt
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)4. video.