Does this really need to be explained on a liberal dem discussion site? yep.

[cali]

There are those saying that President Obama would never ever have drastically cut Social Security benefits via the chained CPI which he put into last year's budget- and yes, those cuts do become drastic over the years. Those folks say that President Obama was playing super dimensional chess: In that case, he's a for shit chess player.

The point is simple- and I'm going to yell this at the top of my upper case lungs:

BY PUTTING CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY IN HIS PROPOSED BUDGET THE PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES CUT THE CURRENT TO THE THIRD RAIL. HE MADE SOCIAL SECURITY "REFORM' LEGITIMATE.

This is simple stuff. Everyone should understand why it was a lousy suckass shitfilled no good idea to do that.

Am I glad that he's not putting it in this year's budget? Yeah.

Grateful? Fuck no. He damn well should never have entertained the idea and he isn't taking it absolutely off the table anyway.