I think Simpson & Bowles released this info today as a con.

[napi21]

Get everybody all riled up on how terrible these ideas are so when they release the final report everybody will take a deep sigh and say tHIS ISN'T SO BAD.

[Kookaburra]

1. You might be right napi

[SarahB]

2. Yes! It's 5 dimensional chess!

C'mon, really?

[asdjrocky]

3. So they are just fucking with us?

Kind of like some Jedi mind trick? There is no excuse for these things or the things they said.

[Raven]

4. Yes, let's play games with Social Security. The only people who

do that are the people who don't need it.

[Creative]

5. I beg to differ.

I believe that the problem is so enormous that far worse is yet to come.

Nevertheless, no politician is going to vote to cut anything. They will simply keep printing until the foundation becomes weakened to the point where the entire structure collapses.

[pa28]

6. Yes, I think they implied as much today in their statement.

I'm hoping they miscalculated. Until today most of the public only had a vague idea we had a deficit commission working or no idea at all.