Why can’t Missouri have a senator like DeFazio? Why can’t all fifty states have at least one like him? In the video, he is articulate and passionate about the harm that “chained CPI” would do to all but the wealthiest. And yet the Gang of Six wants it and Obama enthusiastically embraced it.
If we had fifty plus like DeFazio, the middle class would have a future in this country.
who wants to use a chained CPI calculation to figure Social Security increases. In fact, his recent proposal (which doesn’t seem to have gotten any publicity) for “reforming” Social Security hinges on that proposal and means testing – according to Blunt reform is necessary because, if you ask them, every 20-something will tell you that they don’t expect to receive Social Security benefits (nor why should they, when folks like Blunt have been trying to scare them away from counting on Social Security for the last several years – but that’s another topic.