Super Congress to cut SS, Medicare, and Medicaid in order to preserve military industrial complex.

[woo me with science]

The Super Committee is coming to consensus on a plan that will slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in order to preserve the military industrial complex.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/10/pentagon-looking-safe-super-committees-cuts/43974/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2161681


Please write and call the committee, your representatives, and the White House to express your outrage.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
http://www.give5.org/take_action_joint_committee

And please do everything you can to support OWS. They appear to be our only hope.

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Qu'elle surprise!

No one on either side will stop it either. Can we expect a veto from Obama? Hell no. He's in agreement.

[icymist]

2. Banks make lots of money in endless war. Not much money to be made with SS..

Medacare or anything benefiting the people.

[johnaries]

3. Unrecc for fear-mongering for unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

[Dragonfli]

6. Rec for reporting what some would have buried in the name of false partisanship /nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. The atlantic is actually respected

Huzzah!

Enjoy the increased protests. Fuel, gasoline, match. Oxygen...

[leveymg]

15. So, we'll just ignore it until they finish their work? No way.

You know that's the way it'll turn out, the Pentagon stands while all around it lies in ruins, don't you?

[bananas]

4. The Super Villains Committee, you mean! nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Gee...maybe this might inspire (hell, demand) more #Occupying!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

7. GOSH, DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THE KILLING MACHINE???

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Marr]

9. If they do that in this political climate, it's going to be like throwing gasoline on a fire.

I have little doubt that they will. Our political class is supremely arrogant and out of touch and frankly, I think that was the whole point of this super committee anyway. They couldn't make the cuts happen during that debt ceiling charade, and had to put it off and reorganize it.

[newfie11]

12. Yes it will

and it will affect votes for Obama in the next election if he does not veto.

[woo me with science]

23. Reorganize it behind closed doors.

This story was buried in the media. The committee is trying to work as quietly as possible, in the hope that this can happen quickly, with as little push back as possible.

[woo me with science]

10. More contact information. Please call and write now.

Link to White House contact page, including telephone numbers and email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

Links to individual Super Commmittee members' web pages and contact information, including telephone numbers and addresses: http://www.deficitreduction.gov/public/index.cfm/members

General page for emailing the Super Committee as a whole: http://www.deficitreduction.gov/public/

Contact pages for other senators and representatives: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml



And please keep helping: www.occupywallst.org

[Politicalboi]

11. With no war in Iraq after 2012

We should have plenty of money for such programs in the future.

[newfie11]

13. not to mention SS isn't broke

and simply raising the cap would solve the problem forever.

[woo me with science]

14. The Congress and administration appear to have other plans. nt

[ThomWV]

16. What a load of shit. Did any of you all bother to look and see what the source was?

An investment analyst had an opinion that agrees with a poll taken by a magazine and this is the basis for the article. What a load of shit.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. People on this board believe what they want to believe

Never mind that the article has a laughable premise and methodology. They want to be really really mad.

[JoePhilly]

20. Yup .... more manufactured outrage.

[TBF]

18. No surprise here - austerity comes to the US. Time to resist. nt

[dmosh42]

19. This is setup for failure-Automatic cut to take effect following term date

[NorthCarolina]

21. Did anyone really ever doubt that cutting SS, Medicare and Medicaid were the intended primary goal

of the super committee from the get go? Congress members could never have voted on such cuts and been reelected, so the super committee was developed to mandate the cuts, while giving Congress members the advantage of plausible deniability, "I would have never voted for it", they can say, but the cuts are done just the same. The talk of cuts to the military budget were simply a talking point diversion to misdirect public attention, and concern, away from the Super Committee as long as possible. I said this back when the Super Committee was formed, as the reason for it, and the real goals for it, were quite obvious. Americans are so easily duped.

[indepat]

22. Anyone in denial is in denial of the original intent, the sole purpose of the Cat-food Commission

:patriot:

[sarcasmo]

24. No surprise here, military budget is never on the table.

[eridani]

25. For weekly talking points see--

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x34938

[woo me with science]

30. Thank you very much for this! Everyone, please don't miss the above post.

Bookmarked with my gratitude.

[Mimosa]

26. K&R to WooMe's excellent OP. n/t

[lunatica]

27. We knew this when we found out who the members of this Super Committee were

[TransitJohn]

28. Shocked, shocked I tell ya!

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. Hearing wonky! Sounds like they're demanding we say NO! to this bullshit!

[MannyGoldstein]

31. Motherfuckers. nt