Reply #115: The Bush tax extension was the result of [View All]

[julian09]

unemployment extension and middle class tax cuts being held hostage; no Bush extension meant no middle class extension or unemployment extension.
Same situation we are in now, no cuts to debt means no raising debt ceiling and default. The Gop "tea party" branch of Alquida ready to cause more financial damage to the world than 911 did. Unbelievable, un american, unpatriotic .
Had Obama not extended Bush tax cuts, for upper one percent thus not extending middle class tax cuts, Obama would have been lambasted for raising taxes.
$650 billion for three programs over ten years compared to the actual outlay that will be spent on those programs is a small percentage. That could be reduced cost for drugs, taking one xray instead of three for same purpose, same for MRI, that have to be read buy technicians.