Only a few specifically Social Security items. But be sure to link through to Yglesias on Chained CPI. (Or as I call it "The Road to Catfood" - which is where the underlying logic takes you).
But plenty of Budget and Medicare stuff in Extended compiled by:
Jamie Hall
Policy Fellow, Social Security Works
1825 K St. NW, Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20006
www.strengthensocialsecurity.org
Clips 06-24-11
News:
New York Post
GOP walks out n Joe’s budget talks
S.A. Miller
June 24, 2011
http://www.nypost.com/...
San Francisco Chronicle
Americans see debt threat as they reject tax ‘scare tactics’
Bloomberg
June 23, 2011
http://www.sfgate.com/...
Portage Daily Register
Presidential hopeful looking to ‘fix America’ makes stop in Portage
Lyn Jerde
June 23, 2011
http://www.wiscnews.com/...
Knoxville News
Vanderbilt University poll: rich should pay more taxes
Michael Cass
June 24, 2011
http://www.knoxnews.com/...
Daily Kos
Leading House Dems: Social Security still not on the table
Joan McCarter
June 23, 2011
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Firedoglake
AARP email admits they’re open to cutting Social Security (again)
Brian Sonenstein
June 24, 2011
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/...
Westport News
Himes: everything on table in budget-balancing act
Charles Lewis
June 23, 2011
http://www.westport-news.com/...
Associated Content
Debt ceiling talks collapse, leave Obama with unpleasant options
Mark Whittington
June 23, 2011
http://www.associatedcontent.com/...
Associated Press
Democrats eye GOP tax cut ideas to boost jobs
Stephen Ohlemacher
June 23, 2011
http://www.google.com/...
Op-ed:
Salt Lake Tribune
Don’t cut Medicare and Social Security
Alan Ormsby
June 24, 2011
http://www.sltrib.com/...
News Hound (“We watch fox news so you don’t have to”)
Help Brave New Films build a Progressive echo chamber to protect Social Security
Ellen
June 24, 2011
http://www.newshounds.us/...
New York Times
How AARP can get its groove back
Frederick Lynch
June 23, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Politico
GOP’s bold gamble on deficit talks
David Rogers
June 24, 2011
http://www.politico.com/...
Think Progress
The mysteries of the chained CPI explained
Matthew Yglesias
June 24, 2011
http://thinkprogress.org/...
Reuters
Scenarios—next steps in fight over spending, debt limit
Richard Cowan
June 23, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/...
Salt Lake Tribune
Report: Proposed federal cuts proposal would harm elderly, children, poor
Patty Henetz
June 23, 2011
http://www.sltrib.com/...
Huffington Post
Was Publius wrong? Money and representative government
Terry Newell
June 23, 2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Blogs:
The Washington Post
A tax increase Republicans might accept and Democrats might refuse
Ezra Klein
June 23, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
America Blog
AARP in “full damage-control mode” after reports that they support Social Security benefit cuts
Gaius Publius
June 23, 2011
http://www.americablog.com/...
Letters to the editor:
Examiner
Medicare and Social Security are just fine
Wayne Wagner
June 23, 2011
http://www.examiner.net/...
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Jamie Hall
Policy Fellow, Social Security Works
1825 K St. NW, Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20006
www.strengthensocialsecurity.org
Office: (202) 587-6197