'Dumb' & 'Cruel': Budget Deal Attacks America's Most Vulnerable

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/11

"Dumb."

That's what University of California, Berkely economist Robert Reich called the budget deal announced by Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan late Tuesday.

Why dumb? According to Reich, the "deal doesn't close tax loopholes for wealthy, restore food stamps to poor, or extend unemployment benefits for jobless."

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New budget deal keeps awful sequester (just delays for 2 years), has no short-term stimulus, and does nothing about long-term deficit. Dumb.

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Budget deal doesn't extend emergency unemployment benefits for 1.3 million jobless. Bad for them, bad for economy. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/12/10/congress-budget-deal/3966641/ …

And he's not alone in thinking the negotiated deal—designed to stave off another government shutdown threat by the Republican Party in the New Year—is another example where working people, those suffering unemployment, the poor, and public employees are asked to sacrifice as the nation's corporate barons and wealthiest individuals are once again insulated from scrutiny.

Though much of the reporting said that both parties were able to make the deal because their respective sacred cows—cuts to Medicare or Social Security for Democrats and tax increases for Republicans—were left off the table.

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1. i say MAKE them shut down the govt AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN

[JEB]

2. The rich get richer

and the rest of us get fucked in the ass with a wire brush. Great compromise.

[jsr]

3. That's the plan all along

[NuclearDem]

4. Glad they called it bipartisan.

"Fuck the poor" didn't play so well in focus groups.

[bvar22]

5. OH, it is going to get worse.

the Working Class & Poor have no voice and no representation in these "negotiations".
The only question is [font size=3]"How much MORE are the RICH going to get?"[/font]

Billionaire wealth doubles since financial crisis
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/11/12/Billionaire-wealth-doubles-since-financial-crisis/5011384268135/?spt=hts&or=12

The Top .01 Percent Reach New Heights
http://www.demos.org/blog/9/13/13/top-01-percent-reach-new-heights

US Wealthy Have Biggest Piece of Pie Ever Recorded
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/11-6

Rates of unemployment for families earning less than $20,000 - have topped 21 percent
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JOBS_GAP_RICH_AND_POOR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-16-08-11-23


Gallop: 20.4% of Americans now “going hungry”.
http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/12/20460846-1-in-5-americans-struggling-to-put-food-on-the-table?lite

Study: "Trade" Deal Would Mean a Pay Cut for 90% of U.S. Workers
http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/the-verdict-is-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-a-sweeping-free-trade-deal-under-negotiation-with-11-pacific-rim-coun.html

Obama Appoints Bain Capital Consultant Jeff Ziets to Top Post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662209

Obama selects former Monsanto lobbyist to be his TPP chief agriculture negotiator
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662210

The Totally Unfair And Bitterly Uneven 'Recovery,' In 12 Charts – HuffPo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662029

Larry Summers Gets 'Full-Throated Defense' From Obama In Capitol Hill Meeting
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014553343#post1

Wall Street will get away with massive wave of criminality of 2008 - Statute of Limitations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022516719

Older Workers:.Set Back by Recession, and Shut Out of Rebound
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/booming/for-laid-off-older-workers-age-bias-is-pervasive.html?smid=tw-share&_r=3&

THIS ^ does NOT happen by accident.
It is the result of carefully planned and implemented Economic Policy carried out over 3 decades by BOTH Political Parties.
It requires careful preparation, marketing, propaganda saturation, buying the right politicians, message control, courts packed with Conservative Corporate Rights Judges, and the marginalization and suppression of any opposition and dissent.

And NOW, thanks to the brilliant scam called "The Sequester",
no single politician or Political Party has to take ANY responsibility for cuts to programs that help the Working Class & The Poor.

[font size=3]"Its not MY fault...The Sequester cut those programs!!!"[/font]
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023612281