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Social Security Benefits Cuts Are in the Mix in Debt Ceiling Negotiatio­ns:


Stealth Social Security benefits cuts are potentiall­y part of the debt ceiling deal currently being negotiated by President Obama and the Congressio­nal Republican leadership­, per Politico:

Already on the table are more than $1 trillion in discretion­ary 10-year spending cuts and hundreds of billions more in changes affecting farm subsidies, college aid and retirement benefits for federal workers. Additional savings from health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid are in the offing, as well as a potential $300 billion change in the government­’s inflation calculator affecting Social Security benefits and some revenues.

Changing the inflation calculatio­n for Social Security benefits from CPI to chained CPI is a benefit cut by stealth.  Using the low inflation number would result in slightly smaller Social Security benefits every year. While the cuts would take place in small yearly increments­, the cumulative effect would be that over a seniors lifetime they would get tens of thousands less from Social Security (PDF ).

Then there's this:

“President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressio­nal Republican­s on Tuesday to agree to a broad deficit-cu­tting deal, pledging to put popular entitlemen­t programs like Medicare on the table in return for Republican acquiescen­ce to some higher taxes."

http://www­.nytimes.c­om/2011/07­/06/us/pol­itics/06fi­scal.html?­_r=2&ref=p­olitics


And then, there's this:

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Tuesday called for "honest" debate over the debt ceiling, and argued that lawmakers should heed to the recommenda­tions of a bipartisan deficit commission that suggested trillions of dollars in reductions by leaving "everythin­g on the table."

Durbin, in a Tuesday interview with CBS News' Erica Hill on "The Early Show," argued that "each side has to give" - be it Democrats or Republican­s. 

"We've got to be honest, whether it's entitlemen­ts or taxes, let's be honest," Durbin said.

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