Sanders warns Obama not to agree with GOP on Social Security benefit cuts

[cali]

By Alexander Bolton - 01/14/11 03:24 PM ET

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Independent from Vermont, is pressing President Obama to keep his campaign promise not to cut Social Security benefits in a possible deal with Republicans.

Sanders has joined a lobbying campaign by more than 200 labor unions and liberal groups pressing Obama to make a strong statement against cutting Social Security benefits in his State of the Union address, scheduled for Jan. 25.

These groups fear that Obama may agree to cuts to Social Security in exchange for Republican support for raising the debt ceiling later this winter or as part of a broad agreement to reduce the deficit.

Obama campaigned against raising the retirement age and cutting Social Security benefits when he ran for president in 2008. In recent weeks, however, he has stayed largely silent on the proposal to cut benefits put forth by the fiscal-responsibility commission he appointed.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/138061-sanders-warns-obama-not-to-agree-with-gop-on-social-security-benefit-cuts

[crazyjoe]

1. Sanders is an independent??? wtf with that?

[Tunkamerica]

4. ? he's always been, right?

what's your question?

[cali]

7. not always, but he was never a dem

[DrDan]

6. and . . . .

[jannyk]

2. I'm with Sanders! eom

[me b zola]

3. The article needs thoughtful comments

Looks like paid trolls are posting every lie that the gop has ever spewed about social security--and they are viciously attacking Bernie.

[xchrom]

5. recommend

[old mark]

8. K&R-Bernie is correct...Obama MUST keep this promise, not for political reasons,

just because it is the right thing to do. For the GOP, that is a novel concept, but Democrats used to do stuff that way from time to time, back in the old days...


mark