the lies of David W, Corn

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20. I thought Corn's piece was a disgusting attack on progressives

and by extension on the working people of America.

Politicians like Bush, and now Obama.

Well, is he doing what I said, or isn't he? He keeps claiming he wants to keep the Bush tax cuts "for the middle class" and he apparently, just like Rmoney, defines the middle class as "couples making $250,000 or less".

Back in the primary, there was a difference between Obama and Hillary. Hillary was claiming people making $97,000 a year were middle class, and Obama jumped on her. He said "6% is not the middle class, it's the upper class".

Hmm, $97,000 a year is well below $200,000. Suddenlly, Obama is defining the middle class upwards - just like Hillary.

I call that a betrayal of the highest order.

As for the accursed payroll tax cut. I explained very simply why I think it sucks. It sucks because it gives $15.8 billion in benefits to the top 5% and only $13.6 billion in benefits to the bottom 40%. It gives $52 billion to the TOP 20%.

I call $52 billion for the top and $13.6 billion for the bottom 40% a bad deal, an increase in inequality.

That remains true no matter who voted for it.

And I covered the extension of unemployment benefits. They were extended twice already. I am supposed to believe that the only way they could be extended was also by giving huge tax breaks to the rich?

And extra medicaid payments? Well a good deal, in my eyes, would be more extra medicaid payments for two years and tax cuts for the rich for six months. Flip that around and it does not look nearly as good. $30 billion in extra medicaid payments vs. $621 billion in tax cuts for the top 20%.

Heck of a deal, Brownie. Heck of a deal.