During the 2008 election, President Obama said if elected, he would not cut the cost-of-living adjustment. His new budget plan includes the Chained CPI which is an immediate benefit cut to Social Security. Mr. President, Social Security isn’t a deficit bargaining chip. Keep your promise to the American people
First of all, Social Security isn’t the problem with the deficit. Second of all, there is a way to fix it that has nothing to do with starving old people now or in the immediate future.
You have people pay more. And then your system is solved. If you wanted to approach it toward just solvency, that would be one of the things that’s on the table. For the Democrats to not put that on the table and say it’s all about solvency and not the politics, I just don’t buy it.