Should Gene Sperling be fired IMMEDIATELY?

[Faryn Balyncd]

...or should the bastard CONTINUE to advocate the rape of Social Security & Medicare FROM THE OFFICE of the White House National Economic Council?

(a rape that would be totally without purpose if we would only change the tax rates for the 1% back to what they were AFTER the 1981 Reagan tax cuts, not to even consider the tax rates during the Eisenhower years.)

(and a rape that will not only add a nail to the coffin of the American middle class, but which will be a huge step in manipulating the Democratic Party into literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory beginning in 2014.)

[NuclearDem]

1. You mean one of the chief bastards behind GLB and the repeal of Glass-Steagal?

Yeah, fuck that guy.

[Gravitycollapse]

2. Why does Obama hire people like this?

[pa28]

3. Yes. Not for his comments today however.

I think he's just communicating the consensus that has developed in the administration.

Sperling is leaving anyway to spend more time with his family but I wish Obama would open his inner circle to include people outside of the revolving door.

[seabeyond]

4. What would a rape of purpose be? Nt

[Faryn Balyncd]

5. All proposed rapes of SS have a distinct purpose:

to tap the payroll taxes of Americans for general fund expenditures that rightfully should be financed through other sources (specifically, to maintain otherwise unsustainable, historically low income tax rates on the income of the most wealthy), rather than using the SS Trust Fund for its intended purpose.