Reply #71: Trying or not it seems to be a runaway freighttrain heading this way

[TheKentuckian]

Watching Conrad's snow day Budget meeting was extremely depressing. Conrad told his tale of growing up on Social Security after his parents died and how important it is to many people in his state BUT things can't go on blah...blah...blah

Almost none was there save for Conrad's economists, Whitehouse, Sessions came in at some point, and maybe another Democrat. Whitehouse tried to push for standard of living considerations and tried to press the economist (Richart from Maryland, I believe, some kat from the IMF, and another guy from Georgetown, I think) about the value of investing in infrastructure and got blown off. He rebutted with surely we need to at least repair the stuff the government is already responsible for and was rebuffed again.

It really sounds like their will be extreme resistance to any significant reinvestment in the country and there can be little question of a huge push to cut back and/or privatize the safety net.

They're all about deficit reduction at the expense of whatever it takes. They're going to do anything to take stuff off the books they can possibly be allowed to get away with and there won't be a lot of resistance in the Senate.

I think we're in deeper than we're scared to think, folks. They're going to fuck us. We might have enough real Democrats to mitigate the reaming but the fix is already in the pipeline.