Reply #53: The Dems are well on their way of selling us out - did anyone doubt?

[Jim_Shorts]

The Oblivious Committee by Katrina vanden Heuvel:

Last week, the majority of Democratic representatives on the supercommittee offered up an even larger deal — suggesting $3 trillion in deficit reduction, with a ratio of 6-to-1 spending cuts to tax hikes, according to the most reasonable Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline, or nearly 2-to-1 cuts to tax hikes on the CBO’s current policy baseline. Whatever the measure, the offer was markedly worse on spending than either the Simpson-Bowles Deficit Commission’s recommendations or the ideas ladled out by the bipartisan Senate Gang of Six.

A large chunk of the spending cuts would come from Medicare and Medicaid (some $475 billion over 10 years) and the newest establishment fad — a chained Consumer Price Index that would cut a medium earner’s Social Security benefits by about 9.2 percent in real dollars by 2042.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/02-10

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Approval of Congress is at an all time low of 9%, you could occupy their homes, their cars, their country clubs, it does not matter, these F***ers will not listen.