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Senator Sanders is the longest serving independent in congressional history.

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Independent U S Senator from Vermont English Burlington Vermont United States United States Senate University of Chicago Person

Ranked: 1st in Vermont Users (by Followers)

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About 5 days ago Must Read: Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street

As we move toward the fifth anniversary of the great financial crisis of 2008, people should be outraged that cutting Social Security is now on the national agenda, while taxing Wall Street is not. After all, if we take at face value the claims made back in 2008 by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, Wall Street excesses brought the economy to the brink of collapse.

But now the Wall Street behemoths are bigger than ever and President Obama is looking to cut the Social Security benefits of retirees. That will teach the Wall Street boys to be more responsible in the future.

Most people are now familiar with President's Obama's proposal to cut Social Security by reducing the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). While the final formula is somewhat convoluted, the net effect is to reduce benefits by an average of roughly 3.0 percent.

Since S
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About 8 weeks ago BREAKING: Senate Opposes ‘Chained CPI’ Cuts to Social Security, Veterans’ Benefits: 

The Senate tonight voted to block cuts in benefits for Social Security and disabled veterans.

The amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) put the Senate on record against changing how cost-of-living increases are calculated in a way that would result in significant cuts.

“The time has come for the Senate to send a very loud and clear message to the American people: We will not balance the budget on the backs of disabled veterans who have lost their arms, their legs and their eyesight defending our country. We will not balance the budget on the backs of the men and women who have already sacrificed for us in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor on the widows who have lost their husbands in Iraq and Afghanistan defending our country,” Sanders said. 

The amendment opposed switching from the current method of measuring inflation to a so-called chained consumer price index. President Barack Obama
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About 7 weeks ago Must Read: Social Security, Present and Future - The New York Times

In the fight over the federal budget deficit, Social Security has so far been untouched. That may soon change.

In last year’s “fiscal cliff” debate, President Obama offered to reduce the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for Social Security benefits, a spending cut favored by Republicans and scorned by Democrats. Republicans rejected the offer because Mr. Obama wanted tax increases in exchange, while Democrats said it would be too harmful. More recently, Senate Democrats did not include Social Security reforms in their budget and specifically rejected a COLA cut. The House Republican budget also steered clear of explicit cuts to Social Security, a move partly aimed at isolating Mr. Obama.

The question now is whether Mr. Obama will again propose to cut the COLA when he unveils his budget next week. We think he should not do so. The president might want to seem like he is willing to compromise by renew
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About 6 weeks ago Today Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke outside +The White House in opposition to President +Barack Obama's proposal to cut Social Security and benefits for disabled veterans: http://youtu.be/L3DsfUBzac0
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About 11 weeks ago The president must reject the Keystone XL project. http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=d27d11cb-f39f-4f97-8a35-83651ce00c8e 
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About 10 weeks ago Send a Message to President Obama, Senate Leader Reid, House Speaker Boehner: 

Sign The Petition http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=b42b15e3-62af-47e2-a2fd-5284b7f7af74

At a time when the middle class is disappearing, poverty is increasing and the gap between the rich and everyone else is growing wider, we demand that the federal budget not be balanced on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our country.

A federal budget that reduces the deficit by cutting cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security and disabled veterans, raising the Medicare eligibility age and lowering tax rates for the most profitable corporations in this country is not a grand bargain. It is a bad bargain.

We oppose the chained-CPI, a new way to measure inflation and consumer prices designed to cut benefits for Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and their survivors.

We demand a budget that puts millions of Americans back to work in decent paying jobs.
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