The People's Budget

[georgephillip]

From the Congressional Progressive Caucus

"Our Budget’s Bottom Line
• Deficit reduction of $5.6 trillion
• Primary spending cuts of $869 billion
• Net interest savings of $856 billion
• Total spending cuts of $1.7 trillion
• Revenue increase of $3.9 trillion
• Public investment of $1.7 trillion
• Budget surplus of $30.7 billion in 2021, debt at 64.1% of GDP."

Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Starts the "Make it in America" jobs program.
Saves the social safety net.

http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The%20CPC%20FY2012%20Budget.pdf

 

[Seawytch]

Gosh...where is the "liberal media" fawning over what a "courageous" and "refreshing" budget this is?

 

[Robert]

From the Congressional Progressive Caucus

"Our Budget’s Bottom Line
• Deficit reduction of $5.6 trillion
• Primary spending cuts of $869 billion
• Net interest savings of $856 billion
• Total spending cuts of $1.7 trillion
• Revenue increase of $3.9 trillion
• Public investment of $1.7 trillion
• Budget surplus of $30.7 billion in 2021, debt at 64.1% of GDP."

Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Starts the "Make it in America" jobs program.
Saves the social safety net.

http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The%20CPC%20FY2012%20Budget.pdf

How about no?

 

[WillowTree]

50% of the people have NO skin in the game. they need to sit down and stfu.

 

[Oddball]

Kinda like "The People's Republic of China", no doubt.

 

[signelect]

Since the people have to pay the debt, why not a peoples budget. Make sense to me. If I am a people what are congressmen?

 

[Oddball]

Same old Fabian socialist/progressive boilerplate: Raise taxes and spend....I'm sorry, "invest".... more on asinine social welfare programs that have failed to deliver the goods for decades.

D....O....A.

 

[Seawytch]

Ah the "50% don't pay taxes" myth...

If you work, you pay taxes, period. Income taxes are just one part of the pie, and everybody with a job pays employment taxes.

 

[kaz]

From the Congressional Progressive Caucus

"Our Budget’s Bottom Line
• Deficit reduction of $5.6 trillion
• Primary spending cuts of $869 billion
• Net interest savings of $856 billion
• Total spending cuts of $1.7 trillion
• Revenue increase of $3.9 trillion
• Public investment of $1.7 trillion
• Budget surplus of $30.7 billion in 2021, debt at 64.1% of GDP."

Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Starts the "Make it in America" jobs program.
Saves the social safety net.

http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The%20CPC%20FY2012%20Budget.pdf

It's not the people's budget, it's the fantasy land budget

 

[kaz]

Same old Fabian socialist/progressive boilerplate: Raise taxes and spend....I'm sorry, "invest".... more on asinine social welfare programs that have failed to deliver the goods for decades.

D....O....A.

My favorite part is they cut spending by $1.7 trillion, and increase spending by $1.7 trillion and then have $4 trillion in tax hikes. Don't you love Obama? Wait, love's not the word...

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Kinda like "The People's Republic of China", no doubt.

Beat me to it. Has a beautiful maoist ring to to it.

 

[georgephillip]

Gosh...where is the "liberal media" fawning over what a "courageous" and "refreshing" budget this is?

David Brooks may be backpedaling from his cheerleading for The Ryan Plan, but the "liberal media" is at least as corporate in its outlook on the economy as the conservatives are.

One percent of US taxpayers now control 40% of national wealth and fund the campaigns of Republicans AND Democrats alike. Their media won't report on anyone's budget that doesn't allow the richest 1% of Americans to continue prospering at the expense of 90% of Americans.

 

[Oddball]

Wow....NY Slimes token "conservative" David Brooks throwing republicans overboard?!?!?

There's something we don't see everyday.

 

[georgephillip]

From the Congressional Progressive Caucus

"Our Budget’s Bottom Line
• Deficit reduction of $5.6 trillion
• Primary spending cuts of $869 billion
• Net interest savings of $856 billion
• Total spending cuts of $1.7 trillion
• Revenue increase of $3.9 trillion
• Public investment of $1.7 trillion
• Budget surplus of $30.7 billion in 2021, debt at 64.1% of GDP."

Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Starts the "Make it in America" jobs program.
Saves the social safety net.

http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The%20CPC%20FY2012%20Budget.pdf

How about no?

No to Social Security? Medicare and Medicaid? K-12 education or heating oil assistance to low income families and student loans?

Yes to GE and Goldman Sachs?

 

[Avorysuds]

From the Congressional Progressive Caucus

"Our Budget’s Bottom Line
• Deficit reduction of $5.6 trillion
• Primary spending cuts of $869 billion
• Net interest savings of $856 billion
• Total spending cuts of $1.7 trillion
• Revenue increase of $3.9 trillion
• Public investment of $1.7 trillion
• Budget surplus of $30.7 billion in 2021, debt at 64.1% of GDP."

Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Starts the "Make it in America" jobs program.
Saves the social safety net.

http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The%20CPC%20FY2012%20Budget.pdf

How about no?

No to Social Security? Medicare and Medicaid? K-12 education or heating oil assistance to low income families and student loans?

Yes to GE and Goldman Sachs?

You just nailed Obama's policy but that list represents Obama's speechs.

 

[georgephillip]

How about no?

No to Social Security? Medicare and Medicaid? K-12 education or heating oil assistance to low income families and student loans?

Yes to GE and Goldman Sachs?

You just nailed Obama's policy but that list represents Obama's speechs.

If Obama wins a second term, Social Security will fall into the hands of Wall Street.

He's the biggest threat to the economic security of 90% of Americans to ever sit in the White House.

 

[Avorysuds]

No to Social Security? Medicare and Medicaid? K-12 education or heating oil assistance to low income families and student loans?

Yes to GE and Goldman Sachs?

You just nailed Obama's policy but that list represents Obama's speechs.

If Obama wins a second term, Social Security will fall into the hands of Wall Street.

He's the biggest threat to the economic security of 90% of Americans to ever sit in the White House.

SS and all of that needs to go... I think that if SS is privatized we need to have a bank account set up with a good % made off the money invested. The bank has a contract with the Government and you. If you die ALL that money is turned over to family and so on.

I think Mcaide and Mcare and all welfare should be the same, you opt in and it goes into a bank account that only you can draw out of. When that money is gone it’s gone.

The main issue of course is people won't feel they are getting something for nothing and will never support something like that, you know, taking care of ones self.

 

[georgephillip]

50% of the people have NO skin in the game. they need to sit down and stfu.

Then there's the ?% of people too ignorant, stupid and/or indoctrinated to connect the dots between the scams that have made the rich so rich and the federal debt currently crushing this country.

 

[Avorysuds]

50% of the people have NO skin in the game. they need to sit down and stfu.

Then there's the ?% of people too ignorant, stupid and/or indoctrinated to connect the dots between the scams that have made the rich so rich and the federal debt currently crushing this country.

"The Rich" have done nothing to "crash the country."

Well, politicians are rich... And Obama did Bail out the rich (himself too lolz) peoples investments.

 

[georgephillip]

Kinda like "The People's Republic of China", no doubt.

More like the debate over how much to cut teachers' pensions or Social Security benefits while preserving tax breaks for corporate rich-bitches.

No doubt.