MB Civic

Janezilla ..

Everywhere you look, the media narrative is that President Obama is “capitulating” to Republicans by agreeing to cuts in Social Security benefits. And I have to ask, where is this collective political amnesia coming from? Obama has made a deliberate and concerted effort to cut Social Security benefits since the time he took office .. [Jane documents Fiscal Responsibility Summit, Pete Peterson is BO’s BFF, Orzag-Diamond, Catfood Commission etc etc] .. I don’t know why Obama wants to cut Social Security benefits. I do know that Obama has been honest about it from the start .. It defies all logic and reason to look at his actions over the years and think that the President is now “capitulating” on Social Security. The President has been very forthcoming about the fact that cutting Social Security benefits is something he wants to do. When he said during the debate that he didn’t differ from Mitt Romney on entitlement reform, he meant it. It’s time for people to remove the rose-colored glasses and stop projecting their own feelings on to the man. It’s time to take him at his word

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