Candidly, I do not see the necessity at this time for "Shared Sacrifice"

[Samantha]

24. You are exactly correct and here is another point

I keep asking myself why these politicians have the gall to ask me to forfeit shares of my earned Medicare and Medicaid benefits to help pay for a deficit, a good portion of which was incurred as a result of Bush's illegal, immoral preemptive war on Iraq. I opposed this concept of preemptive war from the minute I heard the term and I spoke out against that war incessantly. I did not believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (with the possible exception of some germ war fare the Reagan administration gave Saddam in the 80s). So now here we are years later from the start of that war holding a huge deficit thanks to George W. Bush* and I am suppose to surrender benefits I have earned to help offset that deficit? I don't think so. I point to, as I did in another post above, asking Halliburton and The Carlyle Group to chip in and other similarly situated corporations to pay their fair share.

And your references to Honeywell, I believe the work Sensata was performing was for Honeywell, and we saw during the election how Bain was treating them. These corporations that are speaking out now, the Wall Street CEO's, Officers of large corporations, they will make us Sensata underdogs as well for the sake of their making an extra dollar.

Additionally, seeing these corporate officials step out and try to control where our public policies go starts reminding me of TPP references of late....

We have to step up and stand up to these people.

Thanks for posting on my thread.

Sam