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2016 Postmortem

Cheese Sandwich

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4. grand bargain

Reply to jillan (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 09:33 PM

Feb 2016

Obama wanted a "grand bargain" with the GOP that would have cut Social Security & veterans benefits by adopting a chained CPI, a different way of calculating cost of living adjustments.

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A question for you - what did President Obama do that made Bernie say maybe he should be primaried? [View all] jillan Feb 2016 OP

SS and a number of other issues. nt Live and Learn Feb 2016 #1

That was an easy one. Chained CPI. The gift that keeps on taking. guillaumeb Feb 2016 #2

No public option. n/t Peregrine Took Feb 2016 #3

grand bargain Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #4

Bernie didn't get a pony bigwillq Feb 2016 #5

Bernie has said repeatedly that a President needs to utilize the support base he built to win..... DJ13 Feb 2016 #6