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From the Congressional Progressive Caucus website: Progressive Caucus, Advocates, Stand Against Chained CPI
The AFL-CIO head, Richard Trumka has threatened to end the career of any congressperson who votes to cut Social Security and/or Medicare.
And, we've got Bernie Sanders on the Budget Committee. I don't think we've lost this fight at all!
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)K&R
delrem
(9,688 posts)I think it's bloody well time for them to put up.
Pres. Obama needs some solid effing partners, and neither the (give me a break) "centrists" nor the "tea party" has offered any.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Cha
(297,317 posts)That's right... They can keep their mitts off Soc Sec and Medicare & Affordable Care Act. If so, then 2014 'em.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)No to Social Security Cuts: National labor leaders are warning President Barack Obama against including damaging cuts to Social Security and Medicare in any bipartisan budget agreement. "I and others have got to do everything that we can to make sure that we do not see cuts in Social Security, Sen. Bernie Sanders told Salon.
Sanders Named to Budget Panel: Sen. Sanders was named to a conference committee designated to hash out differences between House and Senate-passed budgets. Sanders told Vermont Public Radio that one of his goals on the committee is to protect programs that are priorities for working families. There are some good people on the conference committee, syndicated radio host Nicole Sandler said on WWRL-AM in New York, N.Y. She mentioned Sen. Sanders.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/102213
LongTomH
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