Democrats Refuse to Buckle to GOP Demands for Huge Cuts in Social Security, Medicare

[Flaylo]

Robert Creamer: Democrats Refuse to Buckle to GOP Demands for Huge Cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

Inside-the-beltway pundits have already begun to decry the so-called "failure" of the super committee to hammer out an agreement that would have almost certainly resulted in huge cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits for ordinary Americans.

Those ordinary Americans should applaud the Democrats' refusal to buckle to Republican demands for Draconian cuts in these critical middle class programs.


In addition, Democrats insisted that Congress' top priority at this moment should be creating jobs, and that the only fair way to bring down future deficits is to end tax breaks for the wealthy and, once again, require that millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share.

Of course it should come as no surprise that Republican negotiators were completely unwilling to allow meaningful increases in the share of taxes paid by millionaires and billionaires -- whose slice of the overall economic pie has exploded over the last three decades. They were unwilling to increase top tax rates to the Clinton-era levels of 39.6% -- much less the 50% marginal tax rate millionaires paid during first administration of that well-known "socialist" Ronald Regan.

After all, the Republicans have one central mission -- to act as guard dogs for incomes of the one percent. Enhancing the wealth of the wealthiest Americans is in fact the core goal of current leadership of the Republican Party. They are willing to battle through hell and back to defend the riches of the Koch brothers of the world.

Never mind that two-thirds of Americans believe that taxing millionaires is the best way to reduce the federal deficit. Never mind that 70% say they oppose cutting Social Security and Medicare to cut the deficit.

In fact, most Americans are down right militant about not cutting Social Security, Medicare to reduce the deficit.

In these tough economic times the Republicans are stupid if they think most Americans are going to support a party that believes in making the rich richer and cutting programs that would drastically affect the middle class and poor in a negative way, they need to open their fucking eyes and ears and listen to the majority of Americans, not the Koch Brother and Grover Nordquist.

 

[Sallow]

Robert Creamer: Democrats Refuse to Buckle to GOP Demands for Huge Cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

Inside-the-beltway pundits have already begun to decry the so-called "failure" of the super committee to hammer out an agreement that would have almost certainly resulted in huge cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits for ordinary Americans.

Those ordinary Americans should applaud the Democrats' refusal to buckle to Republican demands for Draconian cuts in these critical middle class programs.


In addition, Democrats insisted that Congress' top priority at this moment should be creating jobs, and that the only fair way to bring down future deficits is to end tax breaks for the wealthy and, once again, require that millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share.

Of course it should come as no surprise that Republican negotiators were completely unwilling to allow meaningful increases in the share of taxes paid by millionaires and billionaires -- whose slice of the overall economic pie has exploded over the last three decades. They were unwilling to increase top tax rates to the Clinton-era levels of 39.6% -- much less the 50% marginal tax rate millionaires paid during first administration of that well-known "socialist" Ronald Regan.

After all, the Republicans have one central mission -- to act as guard dogs for incomes of the one percent. Enhancing the wealth of the wealthiest Americans is in fact the core goal of current leadership of the Republican Party. They are willing to battle through hell and back to defend the riches of the Koch brothers of the world.

Never mind that two-thirds of Americans believe that taxing millionaires is the best way to reduce the federal deficit. Never mind that 70% say they oppose cutting Social Security and Medicare to cut the deficit.

In fact, most Americans are down right militant about not cutting Social Security, Medicare to reduce the deficit.

In these tough economic times the Republicans are stupid if they think most Americans are going to support a party that believes in making the rich richer and cutting programs that would drastically affect the middle class and poor in a negative way, they need to open their fucking eyes and ears and listen to the majority of Americans, not the Koch Brother and Grover Nordquist.

Finally developing a spine.

This is what will win big in 2012. Let Republicans tell seniors in Florida they want an end to SSI. Let Republicans tell everyone they want a Medicare plan that mimics Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer's. Let them tell everyone we can't afford to help people while cutting taxes on multi-billionaires that exact wealth from the American public and egg on 2 wars.

That will work.

 

[Lakhota]

I am totally baffled by wingnut politics.

 

[auditor0007]

The Republican Party has become so out of touch with a very large percentage of Americans. It just hasn't hit home yet, but it is coming.

 

[Flaylo]

The "failure" to reach a deal actually helps the Dems by default, who's going to vote against a party that believes in making the rich pay more of their fair share and believes in opposing cuts to SS, Medicare and Medcaid is touch economic times when unemployment is high and the rich are getting richer? Who would be that fucking stupid to vote against it and instead believe that giving more money to the rich 1% will reduce unemployment and drastically increase wealth?

 

[Sallow]

The Republican Party has become so out of touch with a very large percentage of Americans. It just hasn't hit home yet, but it is coming.

OWS, Winsconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are showing that a grass roots bottom up movement is a tsunami heading for 2012.

 

[Stephanie]

LOL, huffington post.

now who didn't see this coming.

Of course the Democrats were going to propose cuts ONLY IF they could RAISE taxes ON the American citizens.

And the little sheep see nothing wrong with that AS LONG as it's NOT THEIR TAXES that are going to be raised.