Chained CPI: Because elders can substitute cat food for real food, Social...
Body: Chained CPI is how Obama wants to jigger the Social Security numbers to get his Grand Bargain with Boehner and starve some old people. (So much for Biden's "flat guarantee" -- which Obama never...
View ArticleWe knew Obama could go lower. And so he has.
Body: No one but Our Leader, manifest in grace and compassion, could rush toward the granny-starving compromise for which he and the GOP have so fervently wished... so they can get on with the...
View ArticleRichard Eskow Asks: Which Side Are You On?
Body: Richard Eskow of the Center for the American Future, posted a very good one a couple of days ago. He used the old union meme “which side are you on” to beat up the President and Congress about...
View ArticleLetter to the President: If Social Security Solvency’s really a Problem Then...
Body: Dear Mr. President,
View ArticleThey’re Making Love to the Third Rail: What Are We Gonna Do About It?
Body: OK, the President has officially proposed the “chained CPI” cut to Social Security in opposition to what the heavy majority of American voters want him to do and in contradiction with promises he...
View ArticleHell No! The Ultimate Pushback against the Grand Bargain
Body: The underlying rationale for “a Grand Bargain” and the President’s deficit reduction budget including cuts to both Social Security (SS) and Medicare and many valuable discretionary programs,...
View ArticleReply to Reinhart and Rogoff’s NYT Response to Critics
Body: By Warren Mosler (Cross-posted with permission of the author fromThe Center of the Universe) The intellectual dishonesty continues. As before, it's the lie of omission.
View ArticleWhat that Letter Should Have Said
Body: On Valentine's Day, Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to the President, authored by himself and signed by 15 other Senators, all Democrats. The letter was a response to the rumors that the...
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