Say it with me now, friends: No cuts to Social Security. Period. "Chained CPI" is the thin end of the wedge for Republicans in their ongoing effort to gut the program and destroy the New Deal. President Obama has public opinion on his side and therefore significant leverage. Shouldn't he use it instead of caving in to Boehner and the deficit scolds?

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