Hmmmm.... Mar 1, 2013 CBO Report on Chained CPI

[JDPriestly]

52. I'm with you, The Progressive.

And making Social Security or Medicare in any way obviously means-tested would discourage people from saving and encourage them to give their money to their children before they run through it and then just go on the dole.

One of the hopes of middle-class parents is to be able to live independently in their senior years. Social Security benefits are so small and the likelihood of an expensive event in the life of a senior so great that cutting the CPI would mean that many, many more seniors would become dependent on their children. And our children are struggling themselves -- to educate their children, buy a house on ever reduced incomes and pay student loans.

Please, Mr. President, give us the hope of being able to live independent lives.

Cut the military budget. Don't cut Social Security or Medicare. We really don't need all those bases overseas. And we aren't wanted all around the world. Cut the military budget.