Timmy speaks for his boss: Social Security on the table

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Yay:

even as this President has focused on pulling our nation out of economic recession, he has made clear his commitment to working in a bipartisan way to address the long-term health of Medicare and Social Security. The President deeply understands that re-establishing fiscal responsibility as well as the strength of these two vital programs is essential to the economic and health security in our nation and to our generational responsibility to invest in our children and not simply pass on our debts.

This is rich, coming from an administration that's already passed on debts of two trillion dollars to prop up the zombie banks:

[T]his President will work to build a bipartisan consensus to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security. The President explicitly rejects the notion that Social Security is an untouchable politically and instead believes there is opportunity for a new consensus on Social Security reform.

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