"You can't call yourself a Democrat and support Social Security benefit cuts"

[JDPriestly]

19. Read my post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022626420

If you think Obama is right on this, then you should tell him how to explain it in simple, reassuring terms that assuage the fears of seniors. We are quaking in our boots. My very elderly mother, a Democrat all her life, is very afraid.

I disagree with you. I doubt seriously that these changes will help any seniors at all. The government, even under Obama, and Wall Street under all presidents do not serve the people.

Wall Street serves its own greed, and the government, especially since 1980, serve Wall Street.

There are a lot of things that Obama has suggested that I support:

universal pre-school education. (My children had it in Austria and it made their post pre-school education so successful; my grandson has it in a university preschool and he is developing wonderfully. I can only wish that for every American child. It prepares them for school.)

raising the minimum wage to a livable wage. (Let's shift the burden of paying for health care from Medicaid to the private sector employers. Same fort the burden of providing food stamps to the part-timers and underemployed. Shift the cost of food stamps to employers. The employers will claim they can't afford it, but certainly Walmart can. Its owners are multi-billionaires. The taxpayers should not be supplementing the salaries of Walmart and other major employers' employees.)

And don't change Social Security.

"Chained CPI" sounds like the galleons, like slavery. We don't want it. We don't want cuts to Social Security. That is the only income for many seniors. Those who saved money feel like they were hoodwinked because the banks (thanks to Obama's Fed) are paying no interest on their life savings).