Social Security Cuts Offered By Obama In Debt Negotiations

The Washington Post:

President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue.

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Comments

[waynesmyer]

06:44 AM on 07/10/2011

Wash-Times never, ever lies! Sun-Fat Moon, Supreme Editor, Wash-Times

[hagenjr]

08:35 PM on 07/09/2011

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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[sredge]

12:29 PM on 07/09/2011

When Herbert Hoover asked the reporter, "What could be worse than not balancing the budget?"
the reporter replied, "How about a revolution?"
I understand that Social Security has nothing to do with the budget and the current deficit.
The Caver in chief is not listening to the people, he is only listening to what the Repuglicans want. There was a good reason why we had Glass-Steagall and all the rest of the New Deal. How about the WPA? The Caver in Chief is a loyal and dedicated Goldman Sachs man, and is only going to do what they and the Koch Brothers want him to do.
So yeah, I do think he wants to be Herbert Hoover, and maybe he needs to hear the same question.

[InspiredByTruth]

09:54 AM on 07/08/2011

Lets get real here. No real Democrat would offer up cuts to Social Security (which has NOTHING to do with the deficit) and Medicare. Obama either thinks his base is completely oblivious to his betrayals or he really is a Rove plant and doesn't care who wins the next election. Thats our only options...either he is utterly detached from reality..or a plant. There is no other explanation for a move guaranteed to make him a one-termer IF he goes through with it....Its GB "read my lips" all over again.

[InspiredByTruth]

09:44 AM on 07/08/2011

With Obama planning to gut Social Security and Medicare, we should plan to deny him a second term, by replacing him with a primary challenger. To put it simply, this move would guarantee that he's unelectable (no base support = unelectable). If he does this our ONLY OPTION is to push a primary challenger otherwise the republicans will happily remind voters he gutted SS and Medicare at every chance and sweep the floor with him.

[elarroy]

02:54 PM on 07/12/2011

I agree with one 100%...Obama has betrayed us one too many times....He is to weak to deal with the Republicans.

[Holymolly]

09:39 AM on 07/08/2011

"Extra Extra, read all about it, another newspaper closed, in another country that most Americans never heard of including this here intellituous reporter." I'm not a tweeter so I had to post it here. Does this make me a pundit?

[waynesmyer]

07:05 AM on 07/08/2011

SO NOW WE KNOW! OBAMA SOLD US OUT TO THE KOCH BROS!

[Chauncey1186]

12:55 AM on 07/09/2011

'Cause the WAPO NEVER, EVER, EVER lies.....riiight....

[elarroy]

02:57 PM on 07/12/2011

He sold out on us when he voted to extend tax cuts for the wealthy...and when he opted out of the public option during health care reform, and when he supported the "too big to fail" banking reform, and on and on....he betrayed us and we should not give him a second term. We need another Dem challenger.

[emncaity]

02:29 AM on 07/08/2011

Gee, I wonder where all the posters went who were guaranteeing yesterday this was a false story, that the Post was going to run a retraction, etc.

[Paul Andrews]

06:24 PM on 07/07/2011

before obama cuts one penny from ss he needs to stop his daily bombing runs on libya

[G52]

04:05 AM on 07/08/2011

And cut the military 50% over ten years along with foreign bases with better economies than our own.

[alkamm]

06:07 PM on 07/07/2011

Social Security cuts are not the end of the world. Sure, they are not much, and cutting them will hurt a lot of people, but not everyone who gets it needs it. That's why we need means testing for social security and medicare. We've already decided no one has to pay social security tax on income over a hundred grand, so there's means testing going on right now that enables those making a lot of money to avoid paying for the social safety net that was put in place to eliminate the need for costly government poor houses. Their means allow them to test out of paying the full percentage of their income like everyone else has to.

[contrariandy]

08:22 PM on 07/07/2011

If you make up to $107,000 a year, you and your employer each pay 6.2% (12.4% of your compensation)

If you make $1,070,000 a year, you and your employer each pay 0.62% (1.24% of your compensation)

[alkamm]

06:51 PM on 07/09/2011

fanned and faved
More people should understand this form of class warfare. This is a very fair tax rate, they'll tell you. It doesn't seem like it to me, but who am I.

[G52]

04:07 AM on 07/08/2011

Its the majority that DO NEED THEM that count.

They paid for it...........its theirs PERIOD!

[nypapajoe]

06:04 PM on 07/07/2011

If the President relents and gives in to the Republicans of the Wealthy Elite, we the People should deny him a second term and vote in anybody other than a Republican!

[neutralslamm]

07:26 PM on 07/07/2011

If you make over a specfied amount of money you should not get SSN, nor should you have to pay into it.

[alkamm]

06:53 PM on 07/09/2011

Oh, you should have to pay into it. It's like insurance, or should be seen that way. You pay even if you're not sick, and in this case, you might be sickenly rich.

[Texemale]

05:08 PM on 07/07/2011

Poor Obama has spent all the money in his piggy bank. Now all he can do is go back to isolate & demonize his opponents, secretive, devious, behind-closed-doors (untelevised on CSPAN) shenanigans to further screw up the future of this country. His future has a number on it as in: 2 more years then November, 2012, will finish the shallacking last November started.

[contrariandy]

08:24 PM on 07/07/2011

in far right bizarro world

[Anthony Dodd]

05:02 PM on 07/07/2011

If the TeaOP demanded that every last black American be shipped back to Africa, Obama would compromise and settle on just half.

[InspiredByTruth]

09:49 AM on 07/08/2011

Thats not his style...Obama would offer to ship them out up-front, and then give in to a Republican compromise to deport hispanics too.

[WWYTA]

04:52 PM on 07/07/2011

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure,” the senator thundered. “Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. . . . Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.”

Barack Obama 2006

[CatoInstituteBigshot]

05:12 PM on 07/07/2011

What is your solution?

[busman]

06:23 PM on 07/07/2011

Vote out Obama in 2012.

[InspiredByTruth]

09:50 AM on 07/08/2011

Primary challenger 2012, otherwise its Republican super majority all over again.

[obamathegreat235]

04:47 PM on 07/07/2011

Just more anti Obama propaganda.