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the right upset about yet more tax hikes and even jay carney the president s spokesman today said the president doesn t like this budget much either. take a listen. this is not the president s idealized budget. if he were king or people who supported his proposals were r. in congress. it is what he believes is a fair and balanced approach to our deficit challenges. but what is really upsetting the left as you noted is this thing called chain cpi. what that means is a recalculation to the way you calculate inflation and that would change government benefits. like social security and how much people would receive. bernie sanders, an independent from vermont, who is a socialist said quote i m terribly disappointed and do everything in my power to block president obama s proposal to cut benefits for social security recipients through a chained consumer price index. when you have folks on the left fighting this right away it can help the president politically to show he is trying to add

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