Commentary: Why isn’t Obama demanding corporate welfare cuts?

[cal04]

$2.6 trillion could be saved without touching safety net


If President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner really want to reduce federal deficits, they’re doing a lousy job of it.

Rather than focusing their negotiations on specific and achievable savings that would stabilize our debt for a decade or more, the two leaders have instead been talking about areas of the budget in which there’s almost no common ground.

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They’re ignoring the most obvious solution: Eliminating unproductive and unnecessary federal spending and tax expenditures, especially corporate welfare that only benefits special interests. If even we didn’t have a deficit problem, we should eliminate or minimize this kind of wasteful spending.

And, contrary to what you’ve been told, there is plenty to cut.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-isnt-obama-demanding-corporate-welfare-cuts-2012-12-18

[plethoro]

1. Because they both work for Inverse Corporate Fascists, which

Chris Hayes has expounded on countless times.

[Rambis]

3. "Bob's yer uncle"

[plethoro]

5. Right. I had almost forgotten that expression. Are you from across the pond? nft

ddddddd

[Rambis]

6. No-parents use it (nm)

[plethoro]

7. Good. I happen to have an Uncle Bob. I was

wondering if you were NCIS or The Shop.

[djean111]

2. Is that a trick question?

Obama and Boehner are both corporatists.
Does no good to know how much can be cut if I know that it will not be cut.
Obama never demands anything.

[xchrom]

4. du rec. nt

[bahrbearian]

8. And Defense Cuts

[Mel Content]

9. bcause he's not a Democrat.

[klyon]

10. yes

corporate welfare should only be used when we want to promote new things like trans-continental trains. We should use it today to make clean fuels a reality, high speed trains to replace air traffic not billion dollar companies that don't need it and ship job overseas.

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. Why isn't anybody, except the one guy that isn't in either party? K&R

[Autumn]

12. Well a Democrat might give a few hundred bucks when they can

to his campaign war chest. A corporation gives a hell of a lot more. They take damn good care of their real constituents. The rest of us can shut the fuck up and eat our peas, or cat food if we can afford it.

[Metalflake]

13. Cause he's a Blue Dog/Republican. nm

[woo me with science]

14. Why, indeed.

Time to stop pretending that Obama and other corporate Dems work for us.

Time to start figuring out what we do to fix the problem.

[DeSwiss]

15. K&R

What Eats Up 53 Cents Of Every Tax Dollar?

[jsr]

16. Because Corporations Are People.

And they're job creators, unlike the 47%.

[raouldukelives]

17. Fuck Wall St. Fuck Monsanto, HSBC, Dow, BP, Apple, Wal-Mart, Lockheed, McDonalds, Microsoft

and all the other corporations sucking the life out of America and distributing it to the wealthiest around the globe. They are killing our home and our futures. Support of it is support of the most heinous Republican/Corporatist agendas. It is the support of climate change. Of deregulation. Of suffering and misery for the elderly, disabled and the mentally ill. When will we have had enough. How much money will be enough? When will people stop supporting the market and start supporting America? A future with less famine, more wildlife, more Redwood forests and Coral Reefs is possible. One that contains salmon and Aspens or one that contains Foxconn, warm oceans and slashed safety nets. We have to start today. We have to demand a safer world for children and all living things. Not just with words but with legitimate action. Putting our money where our mouth is. Not where Romney's mouth is for a change.

[commenter8]

18. White House petition to end corporate welfare

White House petition to end corporate welfare here: http://wh.gov/Qa6f