Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:12 PM
Hmmmm.... Mar 1, 2013 CBO Report on Chained CPI
I would say chained-cpi is on the table. Below is the report. Looks like
Social Security gets hit hard. Consider this: The 'savings' from the C-CPI is about $12.72 Billion per year for 10 years. So, our government decides that American Retirees are just getting too much of their own money and they think that is wrong. Then compare this $12 billion/year to the military budget. Why can't they reduce their budget by $12 billion/year. It isn't like we are in global world war? One can deduce that our government Hates American retirees and so they use that money and 'give' it to rich military contractors... We get non-stop bombardments from Obama and Pelosi and every republican that cuts to 'entitlement' programs are mandatory to reduce spending. Funny thing, Social Security is *Self-funding* and contributes *Zero* to the budget. Not one dime from the General Fund goes to funding earned benefits. Fellow DUer, Jackpine Radical, posted this last night: "The time to scream is BEFORE it's a done deal". We have to stop our government from taking/reducing our earned benefits. CBO Link: http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43965?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=812526&utm_campaign=0 
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 Hmmmm.... Mar 1, 2013 CBO Report on Chained CPI (Original post) |
TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | OP |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #1 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #3 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #25 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #27 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #28 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #29 | |
| onpatrol98 | Mar 2013 | #36 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #38 | |
| Angry Dragon | Mar 2013 | #2 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #6 | |
| Angry Dragon | Mar 2013 | #7 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #11 | |
| Angry Dragon | Mar 2013 | #16 | |
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| Angry Dragon | Mar 2013 | #20 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #31 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #26 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #30 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #33 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #35 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #44 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #47 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #8 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #12 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #15 | |
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| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #21 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #24 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #37 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #41 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #42 | |
| jeff47 | Mar 2013 | #9 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #10 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #14 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #18 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #34 | |
| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #39 | |
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| Cleita | Mar 2013 | #51 | |
| TheProgressive | Mar 2013 | #22 | |
| Recursion | Mar 2013 | #32 | |
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| woo me with science | Mar 2013 | #13 | |
| kenny blankenship | Mar 2013 | #23 | |
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| Fuddnik | Mar 2013 | #55 | |
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Response to TheProgressive (Original post)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:19 PM
1. I send an email to the White House at least once a week about this and I'm sure
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #3)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:58 PM
25. In order to do that we would have to borrow money to put FDR and Eisenhower style
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #27)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:06 PM
28. Seems to me that they are trying to make this country dysfunctional
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #3)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:34 PM
36. I've noticed...but I can't figure out why jobs are seldom if ever discussed.
Response to onpatrol98 (Reply #36)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:37 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
38. Having more jobs, or higher pay for the same jobs, would solve a lot
Response to TheProgressive (Original post)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:23 PM
2. SS has NOTHING to do with the budget, debt, nor deficit
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #6)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:33 PM
7. If you put SS and the military into the same sentence you are buying into the republican lie
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #11)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:53 PM
16. And my point is that you are comparing apples and bombs
Response to Angry Dragon (Reply #7)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:54 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
17. It would reduce the deficit to stop all SS checks
Response to Angry Dragon (Reply #20)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:27 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
31. Because that's $800 billion leaving the Treasury this year
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #26)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:25 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
30. The SS checks come from the treasury. If it were writing $800 billion less in checks...
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #33)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:33 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
35. Because currently levies + interest payments exceed payouts
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #44)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:46 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
47. I think you're missing Greenspan's neat trick: bond purchases by the SSA are not "deficit"
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #6)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:36 PM
8. It's not. The capital is invested in Treasury Bonds which makes it seem like that
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #12)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:53 PM
15. AAA Munis are as safe as Treasury bonds IMHO.
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #19)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:56 PM
21. I used to think so, but apparently we can default on the debt and almost have
Response to Cleita (Reply #21)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:35 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
37. EDIT: sorry for misreading you
Response to Recursion (Reply #37)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:39 PM
41. Do you watch the news at all? We almost defaulted when the fiscal cliff crisis
Response to Cleita (Reply #41)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:40 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
42. My mistake; I misread you
Response to jeff47 (Reply #9)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:45 PM
10. Yes and the SS fund is owed that money from the Treasury, not the other way around. n/t
Response to Cleita (Reply #10)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:52 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
14. But Congress sets the rate at which the Trust Fund spends its money to beneficiaries
Response to Recursion (Reply #14)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:55 PM
18. According to our constitution, the government is the people.
Response to Cleita (Reply #18)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:32 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
34. No, according to the Constitution the people ordained and established the form of government
Response to Recursion (Reply #34)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:38 PM
39. What part of "we the people" don't you get? n/t
Response to Cleita (Reply #39)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:42 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
43. It's the first sentence
Response to Recursion (Reply #43)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:46 PM
46. And what part of "of the people, by the people and for the people" don't you get? n/t
Response to Cleita (Reply #46)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:48 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
49. That's the Gettysburg Address (nt)
Response to Recursion (Reply #49)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:55 PM
51. Oh, fer Chrissakes. Yes, it's a quote by Abraham Lincoln, who as President understood what
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #22)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:31 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
32. I know what FICA is
Response to Recursion (Reply #32)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:44 PM
45. Well, neither does your life insurance.
Response to Cleita (Reply #45)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:48 PM
Recursion (56,527 posts)
48. And it might have made more sense for SS to be an insurance system, but it's not
Response to Recursion (Reply #48)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:52 PM
50. It is an insurance, a retirement insurance. Don't you get it?
Response to TheProgressive (Original post)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:52 PM
13. Well, the truth is pretty clear by now.
Response to woo me with science (Reply #13)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 02:57 PM
23. Except to that faction who would praise Him for eating puppies on live TV
Response to woo me with science (Reply #13)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 04:47 PM
55. "Nobody gives a crap about your life"
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Response to TheProgressive (Original post)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 04:12 PM
52. I'm with you, The Progressive.
Response to TheProgressive (Original post)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 04:49 PM
MineralMan (144,945 posts)
56. Not everything sent to the Congressional Budget Office
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #61)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 08:23 PM
MineralMan (144,945 posts)
62. Well, Obama did not.
Response to TheProgressive (Reply #63)
Tue Mar 5, 2013, 08:34 AM
MineralMan (144,945 posts)
64. If I'm not mistaken, all analysis requests to the
Response to TheProgressive (Original post)
Mon Mar 4, 2013, 05:02 PM
59. In both campaigns Obama promised to raise the cap
