Like many of you, I was wondering what we won after Republicans caved and decided to let the government open its doors for business and even threw in a bone allowing Obama to raise the debt limit a few months. Maybe you too already found out the deal it took for our victory.
Yes my friends, so it seems Democrats surrender (almost always permanent) entitlement cuts for temporary increases in discretionary spending to boost the economy which already as always, disproportionately favors the wealthy. Sure, smart plan.
Gene Sperling, director of the White House's National Economic Council,
sounds far more interested in entitlement cuts than in enhanced revenue
via taxes
Gene Sperling, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, appeared before a Democratic business group for what was billed as a speech about the economy after the shutdown, followed by a Q&A session.
What stood out was how he kept winding back around to the importance of entitlement cuts as part of a deal, Yes, that deal, as if he were laying the groundwork to blunt liberal anger. Right now, the official Democratic position is that they’ll accept entitlement cuts only in exchange for new revenue—something most Republicans reject. If Sperling mentioned revenue at all, I missed it.
I have never relished in writing about politics, if this is what this diary is about. I have a very short fuse and get angry when I read shit like this. I only post this because I just fu**king knew that perhaps my Medicare and Social Security was in play in a secret deal (if there was one) to reopen the government and raise the debt limit.
This sounds to me to be the case. Any entitlement cuts must be rejected by Obama who has promised me that he would not make deals on the backs of the middle class and needy.
I let you read my source