[lbo-talk] Social security on the chopping bloc?

[Wojtek S]

WASHINGTON — In his fifth annual budget proposal to Congress on Wednesday,
President Obama once again put forward a fiscal mix of investments in
infrastructure, education and research with further deficit reduction
through tax increases and spending cuts.

But for the first time he included changes to Medicare and Social Security
intended to entice Republicans back to the bargaining table. The
concessions, however, showed little sign of winning them over.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/us/politics/obama-budget-seeks-deal-in-mix-of-cuts-and-spending.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

[WS:] I do not quite understand what O is trying to accomplish. There is no
way he can win Repug support as long as he remains in the White House.

 Repugs are not for compromise but for blood, and that should be quite
obvious to anyone.  I cannot believe that O's strategists do not see this.

 More likely, they put a bluff proposal  they know will be rejected - so
they can demonstrate their own sincerity and undermine that of the Repugs.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."