Hillary Clinton Pledges Not To Cut Social Security Benefits
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Hillary Clinton Pledges Not To Cut Social Security Benefits
Progressive groups applauded the move, but Sanders isn't as impressed.
02/06/2016 02:45 pm ET
Daniel Marans
Reporter, The Huffington Post
Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images
Hillary Clinton vowed that she would not cut Social Security benefits on Friday, assuaging progressive groups that had demanded a definitive pledge.
Hillary Clinton promised on Friday that she would not cut Social Security benefits, winning praise from progressive groups that had pressured her to take such a stance -- but drawing questions from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who challenged her commitment to the issue.
The post was a response to something Sanders had tweeted earlier in the day, when he urged Clinton to "join me in saying loudly and clearly that we will never cut Social Security."............
"I won't cut Social Security," Clinton wrote in an initialed tweet that included a link to her campaign website’s Social Security page. "As always, I'll defend it, & I'll expand it. Enough false innuendos."..................
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Sanders is playing stupid games and scaring people who depend on Soc Security. Shame on the Sanders camp.
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Golly gee.
Sanders has not stepped on this advocacy group like he has PP and Human Rights Campaign!!
Edit to Add:
BoldProgressives.org ?@BoldProgressive Feb 5
PCCC co-founders @StephanieTaylor & @AdamGreen w/ @SSWorks @NancyAlt. @HillaryClinton promises no Soc Security cuts!
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Will he pledge to support all gun safety bills? Will he pledge to vote for a comprehensive immigration reform bill and not listen to the unions that convinced him to do vote against it (AFL-CIO)? Of course he will. 
But the moment he enters the White House, he'll forget aaaall those pledges and continue to do what he's been doing for the past 25+ years - nothing substantial. Good thing his winning the White House is never going to happen.
Absolutely! We should turn the tables on this self-righteous guy and his campaign.
St Bernie playin dirty politics?
Naw...that would never happen would it?? 
on it.
TPP Take Two
October 6, 2015 1:35 pm
**snip**
What I know so far: pharma is mad because the extension of property rights in biologics is much shorter than it wanted, tobacco is mad because it has been carved out of the dispute settlement deal, and Rs in general are mad because the labor protection stuff is stronger than expected. All of these are good things from my point of view. I’ll need to do much more homework once the details are clearer.
But it’s interesting that what we’re seeing so far is a harsh backlash from the right against these improvements. I find myself thinking of Grossman and Helpman’s work on the political economy of free trade agreements, in which they conclude, based on a highly stylized but nonetheless interesting model of special interest politics, that
An FTA is most likely to politically viable exactly when it would be socially harmful.
The TPP looks better than it did, which infuriates much of Congress.
And I'll add: Bernie is mad because the unions have told him to be mad. I seriously doubt the man even took the time to read the TPP since it's detailed and extensive. He has his people on it - which is the major reason why he was teed off and lied that "no one can read what's in it!!11" when, in fact, Senators were allowed to read the first drafts but their aides were not. That told me that Bernie doesn't like reading. Yeah...that's a quality we need in a president.
'Any port in the storm.'
The story goes, Obama put 'cuts' on the table for a 'grand bargain,' and Hillary wants to be the third term of Obama.
So now we get a double whammy - Hillary bash along with Obama bash! 
I wonder if Sanders and his supporters anticipate needing Democrats at all in November? 
dreamed all this up? 
And I'm not tying to incite you, Cha! 
How could I possibly? 
Hillary's Got This.. She's on it.. and all the intelligent, honest people surrounding her all over our country.
