Bill Clinton, Boehner, And Some Other Rich White Guys Had A "Summit" And Agreed: It's Your Fault

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This week a bunch of rich white guys held a "Fiscal Summit" and agreed that:

1. Despite the fact that unemployment is causing untold suffering for millions of people, it's not very important.
2. Despite the fact that wage stagnation is destroying the middle class, that's not important either.
3. Despite the fact that we need the social safety net more than ever after what they've done to the economy, it's expendable.
4. Despite the fact that our government can borrow money at record low rates and use it to put people to work, thereby ending the recession and jumpstarting the economy, that option's not even worth discussing.
5. Despite the fact that these men all possess great power, wealth, and/or influence, everything that's wrong with the economy is your fault.
6. Since it's all your fault, you better get ready to pay up.
Oh, and one other thing:
7. They're all very smart and very brave. It's too bad the rest of you people are such jerks.
Any questions? Let's hope not, because they're all busy men and it's great golfing weather this week in DC.

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. Care to predict how many will write in defense of those horribly maligned job creators?

How many will wax poetic on the age-old wisdom of stealing more from the victims for their own good?

K&R

[KG]

4. won't even have to leave DU.

[Ilsa]

2. Yeah, it's our fault.

We, the American people, elected mostly power-hungry, greedy sociopaths like Clinton, Boehner, Ryan.

[Larry Ogg]

11. If your looking for the guilty you need only to look in the mirror.

As any wise dissident behind the mask would know, no truer words have been spoken.

And beware, the sheep dogs are driven by pathological hubris and persistence, to attack the honest person who figures out and speaks the truth.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Austerity against the 99% is the only way forward!

Time for peas and cat food!

[1monster]

5. Care to put an actual source behind this, with quotes and nonsense like that?

Because Bill Clinton is usually saying "tax us more" (us meaning those making high six and seven figures).

[MannyGoldstein]

7. E.g.,

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/bill-clinton-advises-obama-to-talk-more-about-deficit-reduction/
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UPMCP01.htm

[DFW]

10. From the second article

"There was universal agreement. The deficit is bad and Washington really, really needs to fix it. Fast.

What was lacking was any agreement on how to do it......."

i.e. What Bill Clinton recommended was probably nothing at all like what Bonehead recommended. Makes a lot more sense when that is mentioned. The country was a lot better off when Clinton was president than when Bonehead's guy was president.

This is like saying everybody is against homicides, but Bill Clinton says less handguns in the hands of maniacs is the way to help where Republicans say more handguns in the hands of everybody is the way to help.

[1monster]

15. Cuts to programs are not the only way to cut the deficit. Raising taxes on the super rich,

who are paying the lowest tax rates in history, is a good way to help close the deficits (and, If i remember correctly, is the way Clinton did during his administration).

[Sadie5]

8. Bill Clinton??

I agree that that Clinton usually is for the underdog. Could the OP have a grudge against the former president that did more for the middle class that any president has ever done. I just don't think Clinton belongs to this group of anti middle class thugs.
As I read further on down the column I see That this writer has little use for either Bill or Hillary Clinton as he has a video posted of Hillary lying about something or another.

[Larry Ogg]

12. Repealing Glass-Steagall, signing NAFTA into law etc, etc...

Was a slow creeping death sentence put on the middle class and poor, the idea that Clinton is or was for the underdog, is one of the many custom made, elitist / fallacious illusion that half of the "I got mine culture" swallows like hook, line, and sinker.

[Populist_Prole]

14. Aint THAT the truth

Throughout the 1990's I never saw a president push harder for "free trade" agreements and treaties. He was also a huge proponent of "fast track" voting on said agreements. To those that might counter that he more or less inherited NAFTA from H-Bush, I would say that could be valid except for one unpleasant detail: Bill Clinton was bound and determined to get it to pass, as he really twisted arms of congressmen and senators who were against it due to their own constituent's input. Seemed every time his mug was televised, he always put in a plug for free trade. He was really bullish on GATT.

He may have been a social liberal, and a 24 karat gun-grabber, but this man was a corporatist to the bone.

[KG]

6. White Guy DURec.

[Javaman]

9. When I worked as a P.A. in L.A., we had a saying that went like this...

1. They are laughing at you, not with you.

2. Work harder not smarter

3. Work against us, not with us.

We repeated this like a mantra, because those "above the line" appeared to have no end to the glee of shitting on us.

It now appears as if this can also be applied to the people of this nation.

[Larry Ogg]

13. When I worked for a tax payer fleecing corporation in the late 70's to mid 80's...

I heard mantras like:

1. It's not what you know it's who you blow.

2. Look like your working.

3. Don't rock the boat.

4. You can't fight City Hall.

To bad it's all coming back to bite the people in the ass.

I like your sig line.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Old news. Is there anything in recent history that they haven't managed to blame on Clinton?!