Obama Gives in: Budget Balanced by Also Using Social Security Medicare

On this proposal from Obama the government makes changes on the way inflation is measured. Why do Boehner Wants it? Because it reduces the amount recipients get every year as the inflation index rises.The Republicans have been asking to a change from the index to what they call chain CPI.  Why? They want to take 3% away from seniors, vets and disabled. This in not making any small or big dents on the budget when you compare it other items.  But nobody is talking about the amount of money these groups  (disabled,seniors) spend on Health care, spent-downs and co-pays. 

According to CNN these programs include:

  "Social Security benefits, civilian worker and military pensions, veterans' benefits, and Pell Grants".

Health expenses are going up every year and nobody calculates on how they pay for more with less money. 3% percent on this budget is not a lot but take 3% out of somebody living on SS with payments of $1100-1500 a month ( these groups do not qualify for medicaid because they 'make too much’) This is a group that has worked all their life’s and paid their share and vets that went to serve and came back missing parts be on the inside or the outside. This is been the Republican way of trying to balance the budget from the bottom up. Instead of looking from the top down to see where the money is going they go back on programs that have been paying for themselves. These are no programs of charity.  These are programs for the people that have been paying for them on the premise that the government will make good on it’s promises. 

 The budget will include an offer Obama made to House Speaker John Boehner in December, officials said. That proposal included $400 billion in savings to Medicare over 10 years.

  

Proponents say chained CPI is a more accurate way to measure inflation than the way it's done now, which they say overstates growth in consumer prices.

Some critics have said chained CPI is not a better way to measure inflation for Social Security recipients, because they spend so much on health care, which rises faster than inflation.

CNN says that this plan might work together with other cuts. It might work? To What? A balanced budget. Well we’ve had balanced budgets before and the last one was during the Clinton administration. No cuts were made to social security and medicare with the exception of raising the age to get the benefits. We get a balance budget on the backs of the people that can least afforded and then what? We get in trouble with North Korea, Iran or Syria and where does the balanced budget go?

On whose back would it be balanced again? Give you one guess.

CNN as source article by Adam Gonzalez