PRESIDENT OBAMA, DILIGENTLY SEEKING TO ASSAUGE the seemingly unassuagable, is prepared to offer a slow down in the rate of increase of social security and other entitlement benefits, which is being described, perhaps erroneously, as "cuts".
The republicans, not surprisingly, are having nothing to do with it. Well, of course not. After all, the idea comes from obama, and thus, is impure. One would think that our republican brothers and sisters would jump at the opportunity to further damage the poor; when have they not, and why not now?
Obama needn't worry about the national american gang of elderly bullies; whatever the AARP does in retalliation will pass by the president without much notice; he'll retire in three years to a life of copious money making appearance making.
After a sixteen percent self imposed salary cut, a little globe trotting will be just what the doctor ordered to replenish the pocket book, and make the obamas multi multi millionaires, after the fashion of reagan, clinton, et al. (The bushes don't do this so much, they already have it).
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. Did the AARP get this backwards, somehow? Soon as they take their meds, eat their jello, and have the newspaper read to them, AARP soldiers across the fruited plain will doubtless raise up a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, of biblical proportions.
And maybe, just maybe, after the furor over free money has died down, obama and his conservative adversaries will show a willingness to consider other, more drastic means to reduce our staggering national debt and postpone bankruptcy and economic collapse unto the third generation;
that is, if they can agree that we can somehow manage to get by with say, ten aircraft carriers rather than the present twelve. but then, that might endanger the far flung edges of the imperial realm, and further embolden the north koreans.
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