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President Obama - Keep Your Promise! social security cuts

odd, that is not what he is saying now

Obama Hands Over Social Security Without a Fight

Sequestration will damage US social safety net

note: this is revenge against most Americans for gop losing election and their buddies (rich) paying a few more percent on taxes.

2007: Barack Obama promised to "walk on that picket line" if workers are...

where is this guy? seems to be missing in action

President Obama takes the Oath of Office

voting was down in Missouri last election. why? too bad we really had little choice last election. Obama is further right than Richard Nixon and the other guy was a rich guy from another planet. Senate: one a brazen loonie and the other?

Only an uprising can save us from Social Security Cuts | MyFDL

Only an uprising can save us from Social Security Cuts | MyFDL:

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 This COLA cut is called Chained CPI.  It would do real damage by changing the formula used to calculate the COLA. 

It’s a real and harmful cut to the Social Security benefits you have earned.

The Chained CPI COLA cuts benefits more every year.  After 10 years, your benefits would be cut by about $500 a year for the average retiree.  After 20 years, your benefits would be cut by about $1,000 a year. 

Switching to the Chained CPIwould hurt both current and future beneficiaries.

Social Security should not be part of any such deal anyway.  By law, it can’t contribute to the budget deficit.  It’s only permitted to spend money from the Social Security trust fund, as affirmed by Clinton’s Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.   

Speaker Boehner and President Obama are tussling over a deal that would save around $1 trillion over 10 years.  Yet Bill Clinton has admitted that the U. S.could save that amount, $1 trillion,–in one year and each and every year, not 10 years–by adopting the health care system of any other advanced nation.   

Astounding, but true.  To end the deficit and bring care to all, Congress could simply pass Congressman John Conyers’ bill, HR 676, national single payer health care.  No cuts, no agonizing, no problem. 

In the meantime, only an uprising can persuade President Obama and Congress that we will not stand for these social security cuts—nor any other cuts to Medicare or Medicaid—the programs won through generations of struggles for a better life.

Tell President Obama that the Chained CPI is unacceptable.

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Call the White House (202) 456-1111. 

Call your Senators and representative with the same message:  202-224-3121.  

You can put in your zip code and find them here. 

“I’m telling you this so that everyone is very clear:  if you want to save Social Security from serious benefit cuts that will cause seniors to go hungry and have their utilities shut off, you have to act. You have to rise up and raise hell, because otherwise this train is going down the tracks — it won’t be stopped unless a lot of people get in the way NOW,” said Mike Lux, author of “The Progressive revolution:  How the Best in America Came to be.”  

He asks everyone to make the calls, then adds:

Liberals reject Obama’s Social Security offer--and so does soar 11-3

Liberals reject Obama’s Social Security offer

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 The CPI, or cost of living index, is used to make sure benefits keep pace with inflation, but there are lots of different ways to calculate it. The current measure, called the CPI-W, is generally accepted to overestimate inflation, but the liberals say the proposed alternative, the chained CPI, is too stingy. The chained CPI assumes seniors will adjust their buying habits in response to price shifts (e.g., if the price of oranges goes up, they’ll buy more apples), so they should be able to afford to take a haircut on benefit checks. But liberals say that seniors often barely make ends meet with current benefit levels, so cutting them more would be devastating.

Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, noted that 102 House Democrats have already said that Social Security changes should be kept off the table in these negotiations. “Everyone has a grandparent, a friend or a neighbor who relies on the Social Security benefits they earned to pay for medical care, food and housing. A move towards chained CPI would be a long-term benefit cut for every single person who receives a Social Security check,” he said in a statement.

The chained CPI would cut about $6,000 worth of benefits in the first 15 years of retirement for the average 65-year-old, and $16,000 over 25 years. “This change would be devastating to beneficiaries, especially widowed women, more than a third of whom rely on the program for 90 percent of their income and use every single dollar of the Social Security checks they’ve earned,” Ellison added.

Rep. Barbara Lee, a former Black Caucus and Progressive Caucus co-chair, responded to the news on Twitter: “Reducing COLA is a Social Security benefit cut. Any deal that cuts Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits is unacceptable.”

Obama surrendering to Boehner?

Obama surrendering to Boehner?

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 showdown of 2011, the president has the upper hand in the current negotiations. Plus, he has the trump card of last month’s election results. He can argue – and has been arguing – that the voters have blessed his vision of a “balanced” deal.

The question for progressives, then, is whether Obama is giving too much ground relative to his bargaining position. From this standpoint, there are five obvious red flags in the framework that’s been reported so far:

1. Social Security: Many Democrats have pointed out that talk of a Social Security crisis isbasically bogus and that Washington has no business putting it on the chopping block. The emerging Obama-Boehner deal, according to reports, would cut costs by using chained CPI – a less generous way of calculating inflation for benefits. This would reduce benefits for the average retiree by about 5 percent; if it’s also applied to tax rates, it could push a disproportionate number of lower-income families into higher brackets. To soften the blow for the elderly, Obama’s new offer to Boehner apparently includes an increase in benefits for those over 85 – who would otherwise be hit the hardest by chained CPI – and would exempt those collecting disability payments under SSI. These protections have been pushed by the left-leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, which has argued that chained-CPI could be acceptable as long as they are included.

2. The payro

The Morning Plum: Should progressives accept emerging fiscal cliff deal?

The Morning Plum: Should progressives accept emerging fiscal cliff deal?:

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 On the spending cut side: $800 billion, including defense cuts. No rise in the Medicare eligibility age, but there would be “chained CPI” on Social Security, i.e., a change in the measurement of inflation that amounts to a benefit cut. While the hard line on Medicare is good, in essence, the emerging framework keeps taxes low on income between $250,000 and $400,000, while raising taxes on the middle class (the payroll tax cut would expire) and cutting Social Security.

However, according to an official familiar with the talks, the White House continues to insist on various ways of softening the blow of “chained CPI” that are supported by progressive economists, though the details are still unclear. The liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is willing to support “chained CPI” if it is offset with a small increase in Social Security benefits for longtime beneficiaries and an exemption of of Supplemental Security Income, which is geared towards the poor and disabled. And so, a lot will depend on what the final agreement on Social Security looks like.

The left looks to be mobilizing to pressure Harry Reid not to accept any Social Security cuts, because he previously said Social Security should not be part of any deal. A senior Senate Dem aide tells me that Reid is not prepared to accept the emerging deal yet; he wants to talk to his caucus about it first.

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only losers or morons would accept cuts to social security.  if anything, they should add to benefits instead of giving the loot for corporate welfare and billionaires

Barack Obama Talks Fiscal Cliff Slams "Right-to-Work" in Michigan

Obama pipeline decision may preview energy policy : Stltoday

Obama pipeline decision may preview energy policy : Stltoday

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 There's less variation among Republicans, who generally support the project.

But in Texas, a deep red state that normally embraces the oil industry, the project has drawn intense opposition from landowners who argue their property along the pipeline's route is being unfairly condemned. Their complaints, along with those from Texans who oppose an influx of foreign oil from Canadian tar sands, have fostered an unlikely alliance with environmentalists, who have taken to chaining themselves to machinery and trucks in an attempt to stall construction.

The messy politics may demonstrate why Obama punted the decision until after the election. Now both sides are applying pressure with renewed vigor.

A group of Keystone XL opponents, organized by climate activist Bill McKibben, marched on the White House in November, hoping to call attention to an issue that got barely a mention during the presidential campaign. Days earlier, nine Democratic and nine Republican senators sent Obama a letter urging him to stop stalling.

'Cliff' talks: White House waiting on GOP move : Stltoday

'Cliff' talks: White House waiting on GOP move : Stltoday

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 Both Boehner's and Geithner's latest remarks indicate it could be some time before serious negotiations begin between the White House and Republicans on how to avert economic calamity expected in less than a month when President George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire and automatic, across-the-board spending cuts kick in.

Last week, the White House delivered to Capitol Hill its opening plan: $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade, hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, a possible extension of the temporary Social Security payroll tax cut and enhancing the president's power to raise the national debt limit.

In exchange, the president would back $600 billion in spending cuts, including $350 billion from Medicare and other health programs. But he also wants $200 billion in new spending for jobless benefits, public works projects and aid for struggling homeowners. His proposal for raising the ceiling on government borrowing would make it virtually impossible for Congress to block him.

Republicans said they responded in closed-door meetings with laughter and disbelief.

"I was just flabbergasted," Boehner said. "I looked at him (Geithner) and I said, `You can't be serious.'" Boehner described negotiations as going "nowhere, period," and said "there's clearly a chance" the nation will go over the cliff.

Obama: Tax Hikes Mean a 'Scrooge Christmas'

obamacare---cliff negoations

Tavis Smiley, Cornel West on the 2012 Election & Why Calling Obama "Progressive" Ignores His Record

Tavis Smiley, Cornel West on the 2012 Election & Why Calling Obama "Progressive" Ignores His Record

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Romney Supporter Murray Energy Lays Off 100+ Workers "Because of Obama"

this guy is not the only one