SENATOR SANDERS IS ONE OF THE VERY
FEW IN THE SENATE NOT WORKING FOR ILLEGALS, WALL STREET LOOTERS OR BANKSTERS.
Sanders: I’ll fight Obama’s Social
Security cuts
White
House Correspondent
Sen.
Bernie Sanders at a meeting of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee on March 21, 2013. (Win McNamee/Getty …
Independent
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont filibustered President Barack Obama's late 2010
tax deal with Republicans. His 8.5-hour marathon on the Senate floor failed to
stop the legislation, but FiliBernie was a hit with liberals. Now, Sanders, who
is perhaps the Senate's most liberal member, is vowing to pull out all the
stops to block Obama's push for cuts to Social Security spending.
“I
am terribly disappointed and will do everything in my power to block President
Obama’s proposal to cut benefits for Social Security recipients," Sanders
said in a statement on Friday. "As chairman of the Senate Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs, I also am especially concerned about the impact this change
would have on disabled veterans and their survivors."
Sanders
has been waging a campaign opposing the use of chained CPI, which would mean
lower annual cost-of-living increases for Social Security benefits and
veterans, and would reduce help to the poor. Making the change would cut
federal spending by roughly $130 billion over 10 years. But it would also
adjust how taxes are calculated, generating about $100 billion in new revenue
over the same period.
Obama
will include it in his budget, to be unveiled
April 10. Federal budgets are not like family budgets—they’re nonbinding
spending road maps that serve chiefly as statements of political priorities and
punching bags for political opponents. Even if Obama’s budget passes both the
House and Senate (it won’t) and he signs it, it’s unlikely to have much impact
on how Congress decides to spend federal dollars.
That’s
not to say that it’s a wholly useless bit of theater. Washington has been at
war over how best to reduce deficits and rein in the country’s galloping debt.
The budget says, in effect, what Obama might be willing to do to achieve those
goals, which in turn puts pressure on congressional Democrats to fall in line.
Obama’s
support for that longstanding Republican wish-list item is not really a
surprise. It’s been a part of each of his “grand bargain” offers to the GOP for
cutting the deficit. White House press secretary Jay Carney had said in his
April 1 daily briefing that the proposal “remains on the table.”
But
Sanders, who chairs the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, recalled that
candidate Obama promised Americans in 2008 that he would not cut Social
Security.
"This
is not a minor tweak, as its proponents contend," Sanders scolded. "Under
Obama’s proposal, according to the Social Security Administration, 65-year-old
retirees would lose more than $650 a year by their 75th birthday, and more than
$1,000 a year would be cut from their benefits once they reach 85. The proposed
change would also affect more than 3.2 million disabled veterans receiving
disability compensation benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans who started receiving V.A. disability benefits at age 30 would have
their benefits reduced by $1,425 a year at age 45, $2,341 at age 55 and $3,231
at age 65. Benefits for more than 350,000 surviving spouses and children would
also be cut."
How
far would Sanders be willing to go to block chained CPI? His statement did not explicitly say whether
we'll see The Return Of FiliBernie.
OBAMA’S
ASSAULT ON AMERICANS (LEGALS)
OBAMA AND
OBAMA DONOR SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN LOOT MEDICARE
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CRONY KING
OBAMA: CURL: The Obamas live the 1 percent life
OBAMA
BUILDS THE LA RAZA WEFLARE STATE in AMERICA
EXPOSED! OBAMA BUILDS THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE in AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS OFF THE BACKS OF AMERICANS (Legals)!
ONE OF MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT TO DRUGS AND CRIMINALS
ARE PREGNANT WOMEN. THEY HOP OUR BORDERS FOR “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING AND
THEN 18 YEARS OF WEFLARE.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE PUTS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN
WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS.
Did you know that U.S. law forbids the
admission of any immigrant who is likely to depend on public assistance? It's
right there in Section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, first
passed in the 1950s and still the law today:
"Any alien who, in the opinion of the
consular officer at the time of application for a visa, or in the opinion of
the Attorney General at the time of application for admission or adjustment of
status, is likely at any time to become a public charge is inadmissible."
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