The majority who didn’t vote for the psychopathic narcissist are going to have to sit through another round of voodoo economics, also known as trickle down economics. From one of my favorite reality based news sites, The F@#*king News. GOP Readies Sweeping Jobs Plan To Create Millions of New, Angry Trump Voters By Sweeping Away …
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Jan 20 2011
WH Has Social Security Cuts on Their Table
Get a load of this. It was released late yesterday evening in The Hill.
2 things happened Wednesday. The new Republican majority House gleefully voted to overturn the last session’s PPACA health care reform bill completely, as expected. And the Chinese President, Hu Jintao had a fancy state dinner at the White House with the President. It was said to be a “quintessentially American” state dinner, with lobster, rib eye beef with onion crisps, potatoes, and apple pie for dessert.
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011.
The Hill
Senior White House officials have told Senate Democrats that raising the Social Security retirement age and changing the calculation for cost-of-living adjustments are “on the table” but no final decisions have been made, according to Senate sources.A White House spokesman declined to comment.
Strategists for congressional Democrats fear this could create permanent Democratic minorities in the House and Senate.
These so – called political strategists really have their heads up their bums if they think their biggest problem is that it could create permanent Democratic minorities in the House and Senate.
I bet they want me and you to be civil about this.
Let’s get this straight.
This isn’t about which Party gets to be on top. This isn’t about getting somebody elected, or re elected, and it’s sure not about being able to pass more pathetic legislation and declaring a victory at the photo – opp.
This isn’t about writing your best selling, tell all, cover up biography afterwards, nor your cushy post administration job in the private sector or think tank.
This is literally about life and death for the elderly and the most vulnerable in our population.
They really think they can extort their remaining constituency on this issue.
They really think they can raise the retirement age to 68 or 69 before somebody can collect on Social Security or Medicare.
They think this is merely a matter of strategizing for the 2012 national re election of the Democratic candidate for the White House, and to hell with the House and Senate.
This is war.
Hey, Madame ex Speaker, we saw what you did before in the House, when push came to shove, on that concept of everybody in the tax extraction in exchange for universal eligibility of coverage for a government program. You punted, and it was disgraceful. Senate Majority Leader, too.
You know and I know what’s going down on that State of the Union speech this month.
There Will Be Platitudes. “And I pledge to you, Social Security will remain safe and solvent on my watch.”
Then afterwards he does whateverthehell he wants.
Don’t make me use the Mother of 5 Voice.
Froomkin has more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Dec 04 2010
FINALLY: VooDoo Economics!!
It’s about Damn Time somebody not only talks about but uses the labels of the failure of this so called capitalist system that did what it was long forecast it would, “Collapse”!!!!!
One of the many reasons it lasted this long, up till the beginning of the new century {I was in construction, now forced into retirement} and those like myself who were paying attention saw the collapse coming, it was getting harder for developers to find the cash for projects long before the residential collapse, was the easy credit schemes cooked up by the banks and others.
Sep 13 2008
It’s Still The Economy.
cross posted from The Dream Antilles
On Friday the nation’s recession, the big, ugly one that so many people feel directly in foreclosure of their homes, at the gas pump, in the cost of health care, in towering credit card debt, in the cost of heating their homes, in job and income insecurity, in lack of consumer confidence, in diminishing retirement funds, paid a personal, uninvited and unwanted visit to the county in the Hudson Valley of New York where I live.
The county’s fourth largest employer, Kaz Incorporated, a maker of humidifiers, announced that it was moving its production facilities from Columbia County, New York to Mexico. The announcement that about 350 workers were losing their jobs came on the heals of a similar announcement from LB Furniture earlier this year, that it was closing and that 150 production workers would lose their jobs. That’s 500 production jobs lost in 2008 in a small county with a population of about 62,000. That can modestly be described as an economic disaster.
Join me in Columbia County, New York.