Budget deal reached amid conservative opposition

[boutons_deux]

1. It assumes that deficits are still America’s fundamental problem. Wrong. Our fundamental problem is that Americans are struggling to find decent work. We are halfway into a lost decade marked by mass unemployment, stagnant wages, rising inequality, growing insecurity and a sinking middle class. As President Obama stated in his address on inequality: “A relentlessly growing deficit of opportunity is a bigger threat to our future than our rapidly shrinking fiscal deficit.”

This deal says that for two years, the federal government will do nothing to address that opportunity deficit.

2. The deal refuses to repeal the mindless sequester cuts that were designed to be abhorrent. Instead it “pays for” alleviating less than half of them over the next two years.

And it insists that the relief be allocated equally between a bloated Pentagon, the largest source of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, and threadbare vital domestic programs like infant nutrition, support for schools, clean energy R&D.

3. The deal accepts the bizarre Republican position that no billionaire’s tax rate can be raised, no multinational’s tax dodge shut down to provide resources for investments vital to our future. So investments that even the Chamber of Commerce would agree are essential to an efficient economy – like rebuilding our decrepit infrastructure — will not be made.

4. The deal accepts the risible Republican position that the rich have too little money and workers too much. So new federal workers will pay more for their pensions and military retirees will get a cut in their pensions. But none of the global corporations that ship jobs and report profits abroad to evade taxes will pay a penny more.

5. The deal accepts the Republican refusal to include renewal of unemployment benefits, insuring that over a million unemployed workers and their families will be cut off at the end of the year. And it excludes any pledge to sustain funding for food stamps, even as the right is pushing for harsh cuts in the farm bill. This is a deal that shelters the wealthy and exposes the vulnerable.

http://www.alternet.org/5-things-ter...tter935670&t=7

Both sides think a horrible deal is better than no deal. Then then can go on the TeeVee and thump their chests and roar who wonderful the horrible deal is.

iow, the Repug shutdown has shifted the politics to the right, always to benefit of the enriched/shielded 1% and Corps while ing over the 99%, and esp the 47%

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Oh noes! No more unemployment for a year!

The bill passed in the house and its going to have an easier time in the Senate. Now perhaps I can stop hearing conservative pundits say that the POTUS hasn't passed a budget in X years.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

1. It assumes that deficits are still America’s fundamental problem. Wrong. Our fundamental problem is that Americans are struggling to find decent work. We are halfway into a lost decade marked by mass unemployment, stagnant wages, rising inequality, growing insecurity and a sinking middle class. As President Obama stated in his address on inequality: “A relentlessly growing deficit of opportunity is a bigger threat to our future than our rapidly shrinking fiscal deficit.”

This deal says that for two years, the federal government will do nothing to address that opportunity deficit.

2. The deal refuses to repeal the mindless sequester cuts that were designed to be abhorrent. Instead it “pays for” alleviating less than half of them over the next two years.

And it insists that the relief be allocated equally between a bloated Pentagon, the largest source of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, and threadbare vital domestic programs like infant nutrition, support for schools, clean energy R&D.

3. The deal accepts the bizarre Republican position that no billionaire’s tax rate can be raised, no multinational’s tax dodge shut down to provide resources for investments vital to our future. So investments that even the Chamber of Commerce would agree are essential to an efficient economy – like rebuilding our decrepit infrastructure — will not be made.

4. The deal accepts the risible Republican position that the rich have too little money and workers too much. So new federal workers will pay more for their pensions and military retirees will get a cut in their pensions. But none of the global corporations that ship jobs and report profits abroad to evade taxes will pay a penny more.

5. The deal accepts the Republican refusal to include renewal of unemployment benefits, insuring that over a million unemployed workers and their families will be cut off at the end of the year. And it excludes any pledge to sustain funding for food stamps, even as the right is pushing for harsh cuts in the farm bill. This is a deal that shelters the wealthy and exposes the vulnerable.

http://www.alternet.org/5-things-ter...tter935670&t=7

Both sides think a horrible deal is better than no deal. Then then can go on the TeeVee and thump their chests and roar who wonderful the horrible deal is.

iow, the Repug shutdown has shifted the politics to the right, always to benefit of the enriched/shielded 1% and Corps while ing over the 99%, and esp the 47%

RISE THE PROLETARIAT!!! WORKERS UNITE!!!

[pgardn]

?The deal accepts the risible Republican position that the rich have too little money and workers too much.



The rich have too little money?

Why are they classified as rich?

So people who are rich don't work?

WTF Boutons ?

[TeyshaBlue]

It's alternet.borg. Check your rationality at the door.

[boutons_deux]

?The deal accepts the risible Republican position that the rich have too little money and workers too much.



The rich have too little money?

Why are they classified as rich?

So people who are rich don't work?

WTF Boutons ?

goddam you, and TB , are stupid s.