OBAMA TURNS FURTHER RIGHTWARD

The co-chairmen of the Obama's bipartisan deficit commission released a list of recommendations Wednesday on ways to reduce the nation’s deficit by $4 trillion by 2020.

Co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have proposed raising the retirement age for Social Security to 69 by the year 2075, decreasing the cost of living benefits for Social Security recipients, imposing new limits on the Medicare health insurance program, and ending several middle-class tax breaks.