We both know that.
Over the past 14 years I have seen my federal pension go from 81K to 110K due to COLA increases.
You must have qualified for the older system.
Yes, but you don't compromise your principles to accommodate a bad deal. Allowing Obama to frame the issue that he is being forced by the GOP to cut SS and perhaps Medicare is not a winning issue politically. It is lose-lose for the GOP. We are not going to get real entitlement reform and could very well lose the House in 2014 because of it.