Obama Vowed Never To Cut Social Security Cost-Of-Living Before Chained CPI Move (VIDEO)

We needed an FDR Democrat ... we got a Bill Clinton Democrat ... lucky us.
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McDonald's Orders Friendly Service After Customer Complaints Rise: Report

I once worked for a business that decided it wanted to institute a tie policy. I don't like wearing ties. Never have. So in order to honor management's request I went to a clothing shop on Haight Street in San Francisco ... Aardvarks Odd Ark ... and for $10 bought 25 ties out of a barrel of ties they had. Some ties were wide ... some narrow. Some were shiny, others funeral home dull. Some were psychedelic ... one had a scene from "Fiddler on the Roof".



I started wearing the ties and before I reached the 15th one the tie policy was rescinded.



My boss asked me where I got the ties. I told him. He asked me how much they cost. I told him. He smiled and said:



"I think you may have overpaid."



I responded:



"They were worth every penny."
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The President's Social Security Plan Is a Really, Really Bad Idea

Including Chained CPI in the Budget was really a cruel trick President Obama pulled on fellow Democrats (In addition to seniors, veterans and others who rely on Social Security for their very survival). President Obama isn't going to appear on another ballot, but his Democratic Party colleagues in the House and Senate face the voters in 2014. The Democrats cutting Social Security benefits is a gift to the Republicans who want to retain the House and takeover the Senate. You don't compromise on core principles ... cutting Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid benefits is compromising on core principles. I wish that President Obama would occasionally forget he is a lawyer, then he might stop painting himself into a corner like this in his ardor to get a deal.



And, no, in this case I don't think the President is playing chess while the rest of us play checkers ... in this case I simply think the President and his advisers blew it when they could least afford to.
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The President's Social Security Plan Is a Really, Really Bad Idea

Think of the double plus for Wall Street of Privatized Social Security.



First, they get a constant, mandated influx of revenue into their dicey, fraud-based markets.



Second, the Privatized Wall Street version of Social Security would be a perfect hostage for a Financial Services Industry that relies on securities kiting, wealth counterfeiting though derivatives and CDS contracts, and outright Bernie Madoff style Ponzis to simulate prosperity, for, never again, could an un-bailed out market crash be tolerated for it would immediately dump millions upon millions of Americans into poverty. The US Government would be obligated to cover Wall Street's bad bets, for it would be a National Security issue not too.



And, you're correct, Obama is tight with Wall Street, for no individual would ascend to the office of the President without that being the case .. they wouldn't make it that far in contemporary America.
About Barack Obama
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Club For Growth Looking For Primary Challenger To Greg Walden After His Chained CPI Opposition

Club For Growth is led by Count Chocula? Was Frankenberry too Liberal?
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Rehtaeh Parsons Was My Daughter

Condolences, Mr Canning, Rehtaeh deserves Justice, I hope the Justice System of Nova Scotia is capable of delivering it.
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Jesse Benton, McConnell Campaign Manager, Says Secret Recording Was 'Gestapo' Scare Tactic

The Right Wing is a target rich environment for this type of stuff for they all suffer from low morality and absent ethics. How is picking up an apple that fell from an overladen tree a Gestapo tactic?
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Elizabeth Warren 'Shocked' At White House Plan To Cut Social Security With Chained CPI

President Obama has officially entered lame duck status with this budget.
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John Boehner: Obama Budget Deserves Some Credit For Entitlement Cuts

Only the most meaningless people in the United States want a Grand Bargain.
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Dick Cheney Warns GOP On North Korea: 'We're In Deep Doo Doo'

If Cheney wants to compare Kim Jung-Un to Saddam then we are perfectly safe. Saddam was never a threat.
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Karl Rove Heckled Throughout Speech In Massachusetts, Called 'Murderer,' 'Terrorist' (VIDEO)

Rove is the scum of the Earth, respectfully.
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Brain Dead: Why Is D.C.'s Answer to the Jobs Crisis a Deficit Solution?

The folks in Washington DC have THEIR jobs, it's not like they're public servants.
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John Boehner: Obama Budget Deserves Some Credit For Entitlement Cuts

Boehner should praise the President for his proposed "entitlement" cuts, for it insures he'll remain Speaker after 2014.
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Tomorrow's Presidential Budget: Questions of Judgment?

A friend of mine, who blogs here too, Michael Gene Sullivan, made a very clear point on the budget negotiation on a Facebook post. He said:



"What Obama doesn't seem to get yet is that A: the other side hates him, and will never agree to anything he comes up with, and B: the compromise between a good, workable idea and a bad, unworkable idea is still a bad idea. If one side wants the people to have beef stew, and the other wants to feed the people shit stew if you mix the two you get - shit stew."
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Arkansas Unemployment Drug Testing Bill Passes State Senate

All of the lawmakers that vote for this nonsense should be audited by the IRS for kickbacks.
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Mary Jo White, New SEC Chair, May Not Participate In Key Enforcement Decisions In First Year

How typical ... another SEC Chair too compromised to participate in the duties of the position she holds.
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Paul Krugman: Margaret Thatcher Shouldn't Get Too Much Credit

The Elites, who own the media, will lionize Thatcher because, in the reverse Robin Hood world of Conservatives, she increased the wealth and power of the wealthy and powerful at the cost of The People ... and, to the Gilded Class that makes her a Saint.
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Margaret Thatcher Receives Critical Eulogy From South Africa

I appreciate honesty.
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Rick Santorum: It Would Be 'Suicidal' For GOP To Embrace Gay Marriage

Rick's right. As we all know, there has never been a Gay Conservative Republican ... ever. Um, except for ...
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Mike Reynolds, Oklahoma Rep: 'It's Not Our Job To See That Anyone Gets An Education'

Rep Reynolds thinks the inbred WASP elites have all the brains America needs ... good luck with that.
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Is The War On Drugs Nearing An End?

I wouldn't be surprised if voter disenfranchisement is behind the drug war felony convictions, which effect minorities and the poor predominantly. No better way for Republicans to leverage the electoral game to their benefit than by taking the voting rights away from groups that tend to be politically hostile to them with felony drug convictions.
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Tax Lobby Builds Ties To Max Baucus - NYTimes.com

The lobbyists gifted Baucus with his current wife, didn't they?
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'Missing In Action': Congress Ignores America's Poverty Crisis

Those the Democrats and Republicans in Washington work for are doing quite well. That's all that matters, right?
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Obama: Proposed Budget Not His 'Ideal Plan'

If President Obama touches Social Security his lame-duck status has begun. The Dems will lose the Senate in 2014, and not regain the House, and POTUS will spend the last two years of his Presidency doing public interest photo ops and not much else.
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Christianity As State Religion Supported By One-Third Of Americans, Poll Finds

One Third of Americans, who don't understand what being American is, favor Christianity as a State Religion.
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Obama's Social Security Cut Proposal Sparks Backlash, Threats Of Primary Contests

2014 will make 2010 look like a landslide victory for the Democrats if they attack the American people's Earned Benefits programs. This isn't touching the Third Rail of Politics ... this is French Kissing it.
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Obama Budget: Administration Explains 'Compromise Proposal'

There is no such thing as "Entitlements", the President is going after the American People's Earned Benefits.
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New Jobs Report 'Should Be A Wake-Up Call,' Analyst Says

American life in the Undeclared Depression.
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Jobs Report: First Reaction

The United States and Global Economies have been in an Undeclared Depression since the crash of 2008 ... so what is occurring across the US and World in terms of dreadful economic realities makes perfect sense. The upside is the fraud based economic system that is currently being kept together with chewing gum, scotch tape, and bailing wire will eventually crash ... then we can get down to the business ( pardon my borrowing of the word ) of fixing the core issues of criminality, corruption and fraud that underpin the contemporary American Economic and Political System that should have been addressed with relentless and punitive laser focus in 2008.
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Obama Budget: Administration Explains 'Compromise Proposal'

Honestly, the economy is nothing but a fraud at this point. When it crashes ... and it will BIG TIME ... those H1B visas will be worthless because there will be no reason for skilled workers to want to immigrate here. H1B visas are a symptom of the problem, not the problem in itself. The problem is that the Rich, through their Corporations, own the entire US political system. The United States, like the Soviet Union, is a one party state. In the USSR it was Communist, in the US it is Corporatist.



Why would a skilled worker want to accept an HiB visa to work in the broken outhouse Corporatism has turned the United States of America into? I've worked with folks on H1B visas, believe me they aren't stupid. I can't think of a single one who didn't miss home when they figured out what the USA was really about. The USA is a paradise for undocumented workers willing to live in the shadows to feed their families back home, but it is a step down for those who have skills. Maybe not in the 1990s, but now? Definitely.



Theodore Roosevelt, THE Progressive, addressed The People's needs in a beneficial way no other President was willing to, because he believed the little people of America were just as important as the big people. The principles he operated under are just as meaningful, and crucial to implement today as they were in the Progressive Era he inspired.
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Obama Budget: Administration Explains 'Compromise Proposal'

Can we have a Progressive Party now? The Democrats no longer have any value to the American People.
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NRA Attacks Connecticut 'Sandy Hook Law'

I'm guessing the NRA is so steadfast against Universal Background Checks because it would tip off the Feds to straw buyers the US Gun Manufacturers use to traffic guns. I bet that's quite a lucrative "off book" business. The President of Mexico has already complained about the wide open spigot of firearms flowing from the US into his country ... someone has to buy them in gun shops in Arizona and Texas and transport them. Universal background checks would blow the cover off that game almost immediately.



And remember ... the number one goal of the NRA is to maximize sales of guns and ammunition for the US Gun Manufacturers they represent.
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The Long Depression

"The Long Depression" works, but I like "The Undeclared Depression" for it both reflects its existence, and lack of intervention.
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Pastor Jesse Lee Peterson Claims Obama Racist Against Whites, Mother 'Hated Being White'

"His mother, she hated her color," Peterson said. "She hated being white and I’m thinking, I don’t have a whole lot of proof of this, but I do know she hated her color, hated being white. I think he may have been brought up not to accept that side of himself and that adds to him being a racist because he doesn’t really respect white folks."



"I don’t have a whole lot of proof of this"



"I don’t have a whole lot of proof of this"



"I don’t have a whole lot of proof of this"



"I don’t have a whole lot of proof of this"



"I don’t have a whole lot of proof of this"



Next!
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Does Our Government Believe in Capitalism?

A Capitalist is someone who lives off of money that makes money. If you don't live off of money that makes money, you aren't a Capitalist. The most refined state of Capitalism is Feudalism ... where the Lords control all the land, commerce and power, and the serfs squabble amongst themselves for scraps from the Master's table. There is nothing attractive in that social dynamic for me, for it requires me to believe that one set of mortals are to be valued more than another set of mortals due to their talent of hoarding wealth and resources ... that is folly.



What the US Government is currently empowering though application of corporate socialism is the rise of the Corporate Feudal State, roughly built on the template of Company Towns Coal Mining firms once ran. The miners in those towns were serfs whose living conditions were determined by the Company.



A hybrid Socialist/Regulated Capitalist model affords the greatest stability and longevity for a society, for it allows people to ascend the economic ladder and at the same time meets the basic needs of those at the bottom end of the economic scale, preventing societal evolution to revolution. Human history is fairly clear on how this game is played.
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More Work to Bring War Criminals to Justice

So, when do Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Powell and RIce get sent to the Hague for what they did to the people of Iraq?
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Rand Paul: Sandy Hook Shooting Could Have Been Prevented If Teachers Had Guns

Of course, if Adam Lanza didn't have access to an assault weapon with a 30 round magazine the same could be said.
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Tim Griffin, Arkansas GOP Rep, Stands By Keystone After Mayflower Oil Spill

My guess is that Rep Griffin is more concerned about not harming his campaign contributors than Arkansas.
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Don't Let the IRS Do Your Taxes

The best way to catch the Rich Crooks who are ripping the US off is to have the IRS do their taxes ... I love the idea!
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North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill

So these North Carolina Republicans, in essence, wish to secede from the United States of America.
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Obama's EU Trade Deal Would Include New Political Powers For Corporations

Business is the problem of humanity not the solution for humanity's problems. Business is just a front-end control for the wealthy miscreants who view themselves as the all-seeing, "enlightened" eye at the top of the pyramid. These wealthy miscreants would prefer none of us were here polluting "their" world with our presence to start with, so you can guess the further misery for us that comes from further empowering them through their corporations.



Giving more political power to Corporations is giving more political power to the global elite, who have nothing but contempt for us, and who are the root of mankind's problem to start with.
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MSG Chairman James Dolan Allegedly Fires Employee For Not Recognizing Him: Report

30 years ago, when business had more loyalty to it's employees, knowing the CEO or Chairman of the Board's name, or face, wasn't uncommon. Now, since employment at every level has become more mercenary, there really isn't a reason to bother recognizing the Execs that move in and out of the revolving door upstairs ... though the Exec's egos inform them otherwise.
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Beware the Upside Surprise

Mr Bernstein, on average, what percentage of corporate profits are derived from the core business revenue compared to investment of capital in the markets? 15-25%? In a deregulated environment there are many ways for a business to simulate profitability that have nothing to do with actually doing business. Correct? That concerns me as well.
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No Americans 'Getting A Free-Ride,' New Tax Study Finds

Capitalists always accuse others of their own moral turpitude. In the USA, Capitalists are the ultimate free-riders.
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Eurozone Unemployment Reaches Record High Of 12 Percent

I wonder if the goal of the Austerity is to inspire another World War. Somethings gotta give.
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Ben Carson: White Liberals Are 'The Most Racist People'

Whatever this guys race, he is still repugnant.
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NRA School Safety Report Recommends Arming Teachers, Loosening Gun Laws

The only purpose of the #NRA is to promote gun and ammo sales, so ...Voila!
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Bob Casey Backs Gay Marriage

When in Rome ...
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Nelson, Georgia Family Protection Ordinance Approved, Would Make Gun Ownership Mandatory For Some

What is Nelson, Georgia ... a Penal Colony? Is every neighbor a criminal requiring every neighbor armed?
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Sex Education Programs For Teens Targeted By GOP Lawmakers

Anything that prevents White Procreation the Conservatives are against ... Gay Marriage, Abortion, Birth Control, Sex Ed. The WASP Oligarchy has crunched the numbers and know they are being out bred, and their White Entitlement Society is at risk of collapse.



All of these White Conservative battles are about reversing the decline of the White Replacement Rate. You also hear them promoting immigration from Europe for the same reason.
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Paul Krugman: Here's The Real Problem With California

California is a horrible place. Just terrible. Can't pass a tree on the highway without some Hippy wrapped around it. The elevator music is all Tiny Tim. Drivers have to push their cars passed bird sanctuaries that litter nearly every city block. Surfing has been mandated by decree ... pastrami has been made illegal due to its lack of Om. Every home is vacant, as California residents prefer to camp under the stars waiting for a comet to deliver their Age of Aquarius beer cozy.



California is a miserable place ... do yourself a favor and visit to see the freaks, but don't stay.
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