President Obama explains the need for a Grand Bargain

[cthulu2016]

“We don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt,” President Obama said in an exclusive interview with George Stephanopoulos for “Good Morning America.” “In fact, for the next 10 years, it’s gonna be in a sustainable place.”

See. That explains it.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Shove the 'grand bargain'

[woo me with science]

10. +1000000

[upaloopa]

2. If you are among the working poor what

do you care about the debt if lowering it means you 'll be poorer?
The debt is part of the right wing strategy to defund social programs. They run up the debt giving the money to the 1% then tell the 99% there is no money for social programs.
If we got rid of the debt and rethugs came back into power they would just run it up again.

[Myrina]

3. Yep, the debt was created by the War Machine & 1%'er tax cuts ...

Let them pay it off.

[woo me with science]

4. Well, this explains it all for him.

If this doesn't explain why he thinks Social Security and Medicare benefits need to be cut, nothing does:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022507452

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. I have watched this and I agree: The poor must accept cuts in their ENTITLEMENTS

or else the entire system will fail, fail I say!

[woo me with science]

6. And yet we are fed the bull that

our party is not purchased by the obscenely wealthy, too.

[Autumn]

7. We don't have a party anymore. We have a handful of Democrats

that are willing to be human and protect the vulnerable, it takes more than that to have a political party.

[woo me with science]

8. You're absolutely right.

[indepat]

9. Wish to President were as adamant in not cutting social security and Medicare as 'pukes

are adamant in not raising taxes. Wish the President were adamant that the fix for the many trillions of dollars of debt that junior recklessly and cavalierly created is to address the drivers of that debt rather to gut social security and Medicare. But that would require the President acting like a centrist Democrat rather than a pretty far to the right Republican.

[forestpath]

11. Even if we did have an "immediate criisis," SS and Medicare recipients shouldn't have to pay for it.

And Obama's attitude that they do puts him on a par with any Republican as far as I'm concerned.