Using a chained Consumer Price Index to calculate Social Security increases would negatively affect millions of seniors, whose benefits are already low.
And Social Security isn't in any kind of trouble to begin with, so why is all this even being considered?
What's wrong with the economic plans of the Republican's presidential ticket? Just about everything, says Robert Reich.
See the video below for details:
A professor of public policy at UC-Berkeley,
Reich is former Secretary of Labor. (He's pretty handy with those markers, too, ain't he?)
For the folks who're complaining about Occupy Wall Street (or Charleston or Columbia or any of the many other Occupy movements going on across the nation right now), Robert Reich cuts to the point in counterargument:
With government continuously giving superior rights to individuals based exclusively on money (and doing that for corporations, too), what else have we got?
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