Changing The Name But Not The Game

Great reference, thanks.

Now that we are all just a little more educated as to finance and things "budgetary and fiscal," and finally hip to how the most important decisions in our government are made with invisible technocratic maneuvers out of everybody's eye, reading this "white paper" (or whatever it is), is really chilling. Another Bush Special that waited for Obama to be deployed on a thermonuclear level against us, who have been the targets all along, for several decades.

Below is a snippet which I found particularly irritating for the pseudo technocratic neutrality of the jargon masking a very simple message that BLS had already succeeded in moving the Cat Food project forward with some "tweaks" to the inflation formula -- and that this new beast "superlative CPI" would complement and synergize with those other BLS changes to ensure huge "fiscal" (barf) benefits (for the government) on the backs of Those Who Paid Into The System all Their Working Lives.

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It should be noted that over the past decade, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has made a number of changes directly in the CPI that have significantly reduced the degree to which the CPI overstates inflation. [nice one][/nice] These changes, which in combination were more than twice as large as the change discussed here, have been non-controversial. They have been incorporated directly into the “official” CPI and have affected the annual adjustments in Social Security, other programs, and the tax code without arousing opposition or protest. For technical reasons, the Bureau of Labor Statistics cannot make the modest improvement reflected in the superlative CPI directly into the official CPI, which is the reason it developed the superlative CPI alongside the traditional CPI. Given the daunting long-term fiscal problems that face the nation, this is a change that should be made. If policymakers cannot agree to make a change such as this, how can they agree to the far tougher choices throughout the budget that lie ahead? [Note. They were already setting up the "Fix the Debt" Frames: "tough choices," "daunting long-term fiscal problems that face the nation [no, that face the Rentier Class who realized after the oil crisis that rent-seeking opportunities had narrowed considerable so new flesh had to be identified.] and so on.

I recommend a read. It is very short. If someone had put this document in front of me 6 years ago my eyes would have glazed. Now it is chilling and infuriating. All the more so because how many people directly affected by this form of domestic terrorism (the government against its citizens) don't have a clue?

http://www.ehow.com/how_4995191_social-security-benefits-dependent-child...

I thought I was the first guy to figure this out, but apparently, not. This disquisition sets forth the drill more or less verbatim. The 18 year old widow of whom we spoke draws an additional dependent benefit, and continues so till the youngest child is 18, then resumes upon her reaching the regular age (which by that time will probably be 85, but what can you do...) The benefits multiply by the number of kids adopted plus the spouse. I have been cautioned, btw, that there are certain third world societies where the prudent patriarch is well advised to obscure the fact that his demise does not terminate, but indeed, liberates (as it were...) the payment.