Marston
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2011, 07:50:19 PM » |
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No. It's something.
First of all, Upton is generally an honest guy. He wouldn't box himself into that corner unnecessarily if he didn't mean it.
Second, there are a lot of changes to entitlements for current beneficiaries that were basically agreed to during the Obama-Boehner 'Grand Bargain' talks. Changing Social Security COLA's to a Chained-CPI formula and $400 billion in cuts immediately come to mind. I'm not saying that there aren't proposals that just affect future beneficiaries floating around out there but Upton is ruling out some very substantial deficit-reduction proposals by making that statement.
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