Social Security reform is splitting President Obama’s economic and political advisers. Obama is being pulled in opposite directions by those whose priorities are fiscal and those whose No. 1 concern is electoral. Full Story »
Posted by Jon Mitchell - via Memeorandum, The Hill
This is pretty interesting follow-up to the Truthsquad we just did. The Obama administration seems to be split around the same distinctions that divided us.
no mention of how the deficit was attained.....or any explanation why so called entitlements and deficits- reduction are discussed in the same breath...
..no wonder the dems are pulling both ways....these are the same fools that financed 8 years of war (OFF THE BOOKS)without ever defending the country from wall st OR the banks .
A fairly comprehensive two-page article which unfortunately drones on for six pages. (Bring cookies and milk to sustain sustenance.) While the author covers both sides of the issue, it’s more than what I ever, ever want to know. Implicit within the article is the sixty-four dollar question: will those who screw around with Social Security and Medicare in 2011 be around in 2013?
The thing bothering me is why has our government–progressives and right wingers alike–ended up handing us only two viable options: saddle the middle class with cuts in entitlements; or cut budgets by firing the middle class? Both an anathema in precarious economic times like these. Everyone blithely ignores the abyss of Depression–upon which we still teeter–in a position which won’t take a Hell of a lot to tip us over. What happened to getting the sacred cows to pony up ... More »
This story is misleading in that it interprets varying views on solving the issue of Social Security as a "split" instead of the process of reaching a consensus between viewpoints. Ultimately, President Obama need to consider both and make a decision. That is what happens in any decision-making process. So, my question is "Where's the beef?"
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