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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like the Presidents team got to the New York Times
Unbelievable slanted piece on Obama's call for CPI.
What...they couldn't find Krugman for comment?
PS: Make sure to read the excellent comments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/us/politics/obama-budget-seeks-deal-in-mix-of-cuts-and-spending.html?hp&_r=0
xchrom
(108,903 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)I mean, *their* purchased media.
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I am a firm supporter of the 80 over the 20
elias7
(3,991 posts)What would you have had a news story say?
That the idea is the worse idea ever.
Richardo
(38,391 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)And it's not even going to happen. Ever.
What happened to you? Seriously. Did your account get hacked or something?
cali
(114,904 posts)came out firmly against the chained CPI. They've published several editorials. Here's one:
Misguided Social Security Reform
At the end of last year, just shy of the 11th hour in the fiscal cliff negotiations, President Obama made an offer that included a Republican-backed idea to cut spending by lowering the cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits. The move shocked Congressional Democrats and dismayed Mr. Obamas liberal base.
The offer, however, was rejected by House Republicans who could not stomach the tax increases and other concessions that Mr. Obama demanded as part of the deal. The talks moved on, and when all was said and done, Republicans did not get the lower cost-of-living adjustments (known as COLAs) and Mr. Obama did not get the concessions he had sought.
But that is not the end of the story. As the next round of deficit reduction talks gets under way, the administration seems determined to include the COLA cut in any new package of spending reductions. Rather than using the issue as a bargaining ploy, the administration appears to have embraced it as a worthy end in itself.
Is it? In a word, no.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/opinion/sunday/misguided-social-security-reform.html?_r=0
The WaPo on the other hand....
midnight
(26,624 posts)"The presidents views put him at the head of a small but growing faction of liberals and moderate Democrats who began arguing several years ago that unless the party agrees to changes in the entitlement benefit programs which are growing unsustainably as baby boomers age and medical prices rise the programs costs will overwhelm all other domestic spending to help the poor, the working class and children."
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Mission accomplished!
trumad
(41,692 posts)Were you always this lock step?
Did Obama propose cutting SS---yes or no?
tridim
(45,358 posts)Because I'm a Democrat.
I don't work to defeat Democrats and thus give power to the Republicans... On a Democratic forum.
You're being sold a pile of anti-Democratic bullshit by people who flat-out hate Democrats. Be smart.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Did Obama propose cutting Social Security?
tridim
(45,358 posts)Non-hacked Trumad would have remembered that.
trumad
(41,692 posts)what was your answer.