Well, it's not like we didn't see it coming.
But it was still disappointing this week when Wisconsin Congressman Reid Ribble submitted to Speaker Boehner urging him to ensure several significant cuts to Social Security benefits before the debt ceiling is raised and our government re-opened [http://bit.ly/...].
They want to:
-Raise the retirement age
-Slash annual cost of living adjustments through a new formula, the chained CPI
-Means-test Social Security recipients
It was not seniors, veterans, children, workers, people with disabilities who tanked our economy, and they should not be scapegoated into paying for it. Social Security is too important to be used as ransom in this manufactured budget crisis. It is not right.
You can click here to tell your Representative to support a clean Continuing Resolution to re-open the federal government without cuts to our programs like Social Security and Medicare.