Congressman DeFazio: If we do nothing, seniors are safe and Lloyd Blankfein's taxes go up!

[99th_Monkey]

47. Then I guess "they" have already won

"they" have us, you and me, who basically agree that the poorest and most vulnerable should be
highest priority, "they" have US bickering over the crumbs, over which cuts are worse for whom, etc

This "Chained CPI" is a thinly disguised shell game to steal money from people on Social Security.
This is something the GOP has only dreamed of doing for fucking decades, and now you want me
to cheer Obama on while he gives this up, after winning a landslide 2nd term as POTUS?

This is why people get so damn turned off to politics, it's always "heads I win, tails you lose",
or almost always, the 1% sits behind the fray, laughing their asses off all the way to the bank.

For just now, I'm going with DeFazio, Sanders and Krugman, who all are saying that at this point,
given what Obama as caved in on, it's on-balance better to go over their fucking bogus "cliff" and
have a saner, more Democratically controlled Congress fix the mess in Jan., including giving back
the middle class tax break.