By all accounts, the chained CPI was part of the $4 trillion deal that House Speaker John Boehner nearly agreed to back in the first week of July. That deal may be dead, but the chained CPI is far from it. The president gave it his imprimatur when he embraced the Gang of Six plan, which included the chained CPI in its proposed $500 billion in immediate savings.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
> do we know precisely what COLA changes Obama was asking for in his talks
> with Boehner?
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>wrote:
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>>> > "Taken together, then, the deal is an almost perfect blend of policy
>>> punt
>>> > and political ploy."
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>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-debt-deal-disaster-averted-decline-straight-ahead/2011/07/31/gIQAWPaCmI_story.html?hpid=z2
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>>> > I'm not wringing my hands like the author (and Lindsey Graham) are
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>>> > "decline," but it really kind of does look like a whole lot of nothing.
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>>> Matt Miller is yucky. I was on a panel with him a few years ago. What a
>>> Third Way hack
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>> I believe that, just based on this piece. But it was the first thing I
>> could find that gave me a sense of the numbers. And as you all have been
>> saying, the 900 billion could still turn out not even to be 900 billion,
>> when it's all said and done.
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