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a lot of uh... democrats want progress is very nervous about what the president
is going to do with social security and medicare and the president didn't really
tipped his hand that much last night nonetheless denim and since you work by
day on social security able to get your reaction to here was the president sort
of key remarks on social security and medicare from his state of the union
and those of us who cared deeply about programs like medicare must embrace the
need for modest reforms
our allies our retirement programs will probably investments when the proctor
and jeopardize the promise alaska retirement for future generations
but we can't have senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire
burden of deficit reduction
well asking nothing more from the wealthiest in the most part
argued that result
uh... in terms of the words themselves by i don't think that
until after the president and i think a lot of people fast prolly would be as
well because the idea that
if you're asking seniors to make sacrifices
the asking a million is to but i don't think that when he has he seems to make
sacrifices and i certainly don't think that there is a in economic and moral
equivalent
between so at the chain c_p_i_ which will push hundreds of thousands of
citizens of poverty
asking millionaires to pay the same rate as a middle-class person i don't see
those is morally equivalent the president's sort of saying like
at least we showed one of the of the other in terms of what we're hearing
into my work in some of my we'd take a pass is social security works
there were a number of developments prior to the speech
that sort of made the contect that they really frame the context of a speech in
terms of how this fight is going on down we saw a number of things on friday we
saw senate democrats leaked to greg sergeant in the washington post that the
senate democratic plan
replace the sequester automatic spending uh...
weekly mex a fifty fifty mix of spending cuts
and and and new revenues and would not include any social security or medicare
beneficiary cuts that could include medicare savings
so it's always on fraud in the senate democrats
then uh... the following week uh... the president repeatedly basically
reaffirmed that associate what specifically chain c_p_i_ was on the
table
jaco reconfirmed at a press conference and fight for wrote
on the white house blog
that also that the president offered speaker bear in the past
or or at least as of december
twenty twelve
uh... on the eve of this google was still in play was still valid
and and then we heard again from president that he was a balanced
approach
quite frankly david i've you know given the media fewer
over the idea the president rejected the medicare literally which quite frankly
uh... to my mind
they had kicked off the table a long time ago very public
by having *** durbin condemn it who sorry for the president writing center
for american progress released well not by having it was a study by the fact
that they are so close the white house
he released a study showing that it would
it would not be for the as americans uninsured
said that to begin it was always a red herring and perhaps biet by comparison
chain c_b_i_ it would seem more palatable particularly liberal base
and and we've just seen a time is
but again they see as and he's a combination of some revenues and what
they can pass off as a technical change to the inflation measure that is our
sojourn is across let me just uh...
while you can only imagine uh... i i mean how much faster than bob
ministration viola do this and republicans have their act together and
was able to the republican party was able to serve you will the more moderate
some of the positions that does seem like the president's going to give away
allot of entitlement
issues that democrats hold their eight-year and yet perhaps one of the
things that's protecting his programs right now is the fact the republicans
are being so intransigent and so extreme in so many other issues that right now
the president of the about somebody doesn't have a negotiating partner that
it's worth giving at them
some of these out proposals that of course uh... make democrats stomachs
turn but in any case
one of the issues the president talked a lot about at city union
uh... a lot more than people i think maybe anticipated was climate change
we'll talk about that would take action news
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