Glad to hear Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment will be changed to the so-called Chained CPI. Now the latter will chain the elderly, disabled veterans, and younger disabled who all paid into this federal insurance (fought for by FDR's Francis Perkins, who was sent 'a love letter' by Lawrence O'Donnell you really should find somewhere from his last week's TV show on her birthday of April, 1880)...will chain to the downwardly 'choice' from healthy foods to say, cheaper cat food. False choice; real chains.
There are laws stopping hidden billionaires', including GE, hiding in tax havens. There are no stopping billions of our money transferred to Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Agribiz. There is nowhere real recompensation nor justice for illegally foreclosed homeowners from our govt regulators who gave Big & Bailed-out banks a new bailout at loss to citizens whose homes were stolen by the pens of the banksters' hired robo-signers.
Payroll taxes went up on the struggling without a whisper of President's protest, while only Bush's taxes expired after O'Bama's bs cave to a 1-year extension on all Bush gifts to only be taken from those super-wealthy of $450K income and up.
Then I understood last week why O'Bama seemed so speechless and agreeable with Rawmoney in that 1st debate: The Pres couple paid 18% tax on a combined $400K + $250K book royalties. So he gave his 5% salary in 'solidarity,' eh? Solidarity with super-rich, maybe; certainly I see no solidarity with Sequester that throws kids from Headstart and takes milk from babies in the devestated Women, Infants and Children Program.
I'll conclude harshly finally with what I should have said long ago: O'Bama fooled me twice to vote for him rather than just revolt against the whole undemocratic system we've descended into. It's this: We voted for the wrong man if we wanted change & hope (plus an African-American we thought would rise above racism.) We should have voted for someone who worked beside ML King, and knew 1st-hand the fight for civil rights. I saw Reggie Jackson weeping at O'Bama's Inauguration; I don't think all those tears were joyous. Probably Barbara Lee would have made a much finer President of We The People, in my chastened hindsight.
Harshly, too: Let's not make another mistake by electing Hilary, who forgives Bill like we forgive him for DEforming Welfare: Hilary followed all the rules, sure. Those rule are reward with riches and revolving doors. President Elizabeth Warren is the woman we need. Let's work for her now if she'll run.
Also support Al Grayson, Bernie Sanders, Keith Ellison, Barbara Lee, and Al Franken. Research The Balancing Act, The People's Budget, The Progressive Caucus.
Bipartisanship speaks with forked tongue.