Mr. President, do "OUR DEAL--NOT YOURS!" Clear Messages from the Progressive Democratic Community

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2. What the President and House Speaker want is an Austerity package.

And that is exactly what they have crafted. They are trying to show the bankers, bailed out with our tax dollars, that they can make cuts and are fiscally responsible. They are saying. "See we can cut the poorest of the poor to pay back money we loaned you to loan back to us".

This is Obama's Austerity package. In the midst of a never ending recession, we will make the weakest, the most impoverished, suffer just to ensure banksters get interest on the dollars we gave them to give to us.

And as everyone in Europe can easily see, austerity causes double dip recessions. So, what do you think is going to happen as all theses cuts and tax increases hit the middle class in the US? Why another deeper, longer recession.

Instead of putting people to work this stupid fiscal cliff is an austerity package that will ensure fewer and fewer jobs. But Jamie Diamond loves it.