make Republicans look bad. Can't she see how bad he has made Republicans look by proposing cuts to SS?

She must be a member of the whiny, martyred, professional left who 'hates Obama'.

Wait for the explanations as to why Elizabeth Warren is saying stuff like this.

I'm guessing we are going to be told that she is part of the big plot to make Republicans look bad.

Way to go comrade professional leftist.

That it would be so horrible that it wouldn't be implemented.

Who fights for democratic ideals
Maybe president obama should invite her to dinner.

the Democratic Party Professional Leftistism and must be removed from the Senate and put in her place (the White House) at the first possible opportunity!

I hope so. $13,200 is awfully hard to live on.

Watch for it.

It'll be along any second.

And many who are "opposed" to the CPI scheme are still doing gyrations about how Obama "doesn't really mean it."

I reckon fewer than 10% of DUers are party loyalist centrist bullies, but when they post on average 10 times as often as the rest of us, they create a false impression of greater numbers.

I wish I was still shocked by anything the president does

Listening to all of the hysteria coming from my liberal brothers & sisters over the president talking about changing Social Security benefit adjustments from our current Cost Of Living Adjustments/COLA system to a "Chained CPI" proves to me how quickly we are to throw our own under a bus.

I took time to study the CPI indexes, yeah, there's more than one measure .... this is what I learned.

The CPI-E ( Experimental ) follows the effects of inflation on seniors, according to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics seniors face unique costs associated with medical care and prescription drugs, those costs typically have the impact of eroding the purchasing power of seniors. By using the CPI-E to gauge future adjustments in Social Security benefits in place of the COLA, it's very possible that beneficiaries would gain and not lose income.

We don't know if president Obama means the current CPI-U ( Urban households ) that measures costs in typical urban households, do we ?

Before we take out those pitch forks and turn our backs on Barack Obama, don't we owe it to ourselves to really know what we're mad at him for ? I've tried passing this information along on progressive media outlets, but it sure seems to me that nobody knows what the hell I'm referring to first, but they get right back to wanting to eat one of our own.

"While liberals get bogged down in in-fighting and debating issues, conservatives are busy creating new, easy to repeat bumper stickers".

What makes up that 230 billion in your mind? That is a better situation for seniors?

WTF?

MOST folks have no clue about the various CPI sub-indexes, the way the news is being pushed creates a false impression of the CPI as a one-size-fits all, it is not ! What would the impact on Social Security benefits actually be if the CPI-E is used as opposed to the CPI-U ?

This is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics :

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics : A more detailed examination of the indexes shows that the CPI-E had the highest rate of price increase of the three populations for four of the seven major groups. Medical care prices rose in excess of two times the rate of the average for all items in each population group during this 5-year period. Analysis of the relative importance data for the CPI-E, the CPI-U and CPI-W populations indicate that older Americans devote a substantially larger share of their total budgets to the medical care (see table 2). Because of this, and because the medical care component of the CPI showed the largest price increase, medical care accounts for most of the difference between the higher rate of increase in the CPI-E experimental index--as compared to the CPI-U and CPI-W indexes--during the 1990-95 period.

The "Superlative CPI" - look it up - a great name for an evil bit of work.

Moving to the CPI-E would increase benefits to seniors, as you say. The "Superlative CPI" is a trainwreck that has nothing to do with seniors, and would be a significant cut.

The term "superlative CPI" is interchangeable with the term "chained CPI", it does not define which CPI measure is being proposed to be "chained".

That would explain her sanity.

They rake in billions and get billions more free and everyone has to suffer cost of living cuts because of profit hoarding bullshit. Problem solved.

[link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/11/heres-what-chained-cpi-really-means-up-to-849-less-for-someone-who-retired-in-2001/|