Barack Obama

It blows the mind, doesn't it?? NONE of this makes any sense.

I am not happy with these cuts either. My grandmother is on SS and my mom will probably be on it before too very long. And I may not currently be in the US at the moment (which apparently one or two people here think is terribly important to my credibility as an American for some reason. Hey, who says "expat shaming" is limited to Freepers??!) but this is an issue of importance to me and to my family.

But the frenzied, overheated hysteria on these PROPOSED changes which a) no one expects to pass and b) most importantly, BOEHNER AND OTHER REPUBS HAVE ALREADY SAID THAT THEY WILL NOT SUPPORT is nothing short of bewildering. I can understand people being upset that SS was even used as a bargaining chip even if the president had no intention of ever cutting it, but once again the response just defies logic and reason. You would think that this was the first time SS was on the table judging by the screams. Every 3-5 months, the man gets accused of "wanting to cut SS." And he never does.

I haven't posted any OPs outside of the AA forum in a long time. I've pretty much written DU off and don't remember the last time I could honestly say I enjoyed the place or the majority of the posts. But I don't know, seeing the attack on bigtree and the president in bigtree's thread about the president's speech on gun control just did something.