Your embrace of chained CPI cuts to Social Security and other earned benefits is just plain stupid – politically and as policy. It is cruel to seniors who rely on Social Security for most of their income. It is irrelevant to the deficit, and the deficit itself is irrelevant to the urgent problem of the underemployment crisis which is ongoing. And now the Democratic President “owns” the policy of cutting Social Security, which will give the Republicans a field day in 2014 (remember Medicare “cuts” in 2010)? Only this time you really ARE proposing harmful cuts. Brilliant. This is what I volunteered and voted for?