Reply #83: If "getting something" was all that mattered, you'd have a point, but [View All]

[Atticus]

it isn't and, therefore, you don't.

Too many parents and spouses of Iraq and Afghanistan vets got a folded flag for their loved one's life. They "got something", but it sure as hell wasn't worth the price.

People who buy books by Sarah Palin or Glen Beck "get something" for their 30 or 40 bucks, but it is idiocy and trash, not worth the price of a match to burn them with.

If you are willing to further damage our economy---which ALL economists agree is the effect of extending the millionaires' tax cuts---then, yes, short term, there is a benefit to the middle and lower classes. But, who will pay the REAL cost of this bail out for billionaires when DRASTIC cuts are pushed through to social services? Who will go hungry? Who will be homeless? Who will die for lack of medical care or medicine?

When that happens, and it will, you can tell them "It's OK---WE GOT SOMETHING for the compromise".