Young Turks: A Slap In The Face Of The Middle Class - Deficit Commission Proposal

[CherylK]

Run time: 05:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0_b_obUbZE   Posted on YouTube: December 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 21062   Posted on DU: December 03, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1372

 
Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) breaks down the official proposal of the Deficit Commission and concludes that it helps the rich and corporations while screwing the average middle class American.

[phantom power]

1. We can all say Hell No, but...

then what?

:shrug:

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!!

:kick:

[20score]

3. It sure is a slap in the face. But I expect nothing less.

[blackspade]

4. depressingly correct.

[ooglymoogly]

5. The fix was in when he appointed these men already wrapped in

the chains they have wrought doing their evil for years. Their radical views were already well known by (0). (0) thought nobody would notice that these were his fall guys to take the heat for his own thuggery trying to steal the vast reserves of SS.

That would be four trillion, that's trillion; put away for the common mans retirement by who? you guessed it; the folks whose money it is. This is pure flim flam at its most flagrant and it is totally unacceptable and it has nothing to do with the deficit. And folks wonder why the Democrats in the house were decimated...Folks between 50 and 90 are the largest demographic in this country and they vote and they have been listening to this (0)right wing clap trap crap since before Brown was "mysteriously elected" in the bluest state. Ma. The Democratic party is being systematically destroyed by the pugs and (0) is their man in Washington doing the dirty work for them in our names.

[Goldstein1984]

6. What can we do?

We can economic warfare with economic warfare.

We can stop spending money on non-essentials.

How about passing on Christmas in solidarity with those who have no choice about passing on Christmas?

What we do have to buy, we can buy as local, non-corporate, and as fair trade as possible.

The US GDP is based 70% on consumption. The stock market fluctuates with changes in consumption measured in tenths of a percent. The economy is already on its knees. We can put it flat on its back if those who still have money to spend stop spending it.

Will it hurt us too? Yes. War is like that--you have to be willing to take a punch to deliver one. This isn't Democrat versus Republican, Left versus Right, or Liberal versus Conservative, it's Top versus the Bottom--the Few versus the Many--the Rich versus the Poor.

The rich and the powerful only laugh at whining, hand-wringing, editorializing and demostrating. The only thing they understand is money. Money is the only way they can be hurt.

It's that, or eventually it will be violence. Choose.

[roomtomove]

7. the ulterior motive

of the deficit panel is obviously not to reduce the deficit, but to further the financial crisis to enable continiued dedcimation of scoial services......

[gibby2433]

8. If Obama does anything less than use this report to wipe his ass on national TV

I will lose all respect for the man. This is beyond a joke. Unfortunately the joke's on US. Always has been, always will be. In tough times the rich are given hand-outs while the rest of us are fed "Patriotic" B.S. about sacrifice for country. Trickle-down is back with a vengeance. And this time that tiny hole all this wealth is supposed to trickle through is tighter than a constipated nun's a-hole.

The only hope left is us bottom 95% will finally see this as the moment that Washington "jumped the shark," and enough people realize EVERYTHING done in "our" name is really just a scam to get more money into the hands of the rich.

[activa8tr]

9. That deficit commission was a big joke! What the HECK was

Obama thinking?