Reminder: Progressives Have a Great Solution to the 'Fiscal Bluff'! [View all]

[grahamhgreen]

Summary: "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that any deal replacing the Budget Control Act of 2011 (aka Fiscal Cliff) should contain serious revenue increases and no Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security benefit cuts.

The Deal for All resolution, H.Res 733, which additional Members will cosponsor through the end of the year, advocates four key policies that have built the middle class, expanded the nation’s economy and must play a significant role in any future budget negotiation:

(1) No cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits;

(2) Must contain serious revenue increases, including closing corporate tax loopholes and increasing individual income tax rates for the highest earners;

(3) Significantly reduce defense spending to focus the United States Armed Forces on combating 21st century risks; and

(4) Promote economic growth and expand economic opportunity by including strong levels of job-creating Federal investments in areas such as infrastructure and education, and by promoting private investment."

INFO: http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/deal-for-all/

RESOLUTION: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.RES.733:


Call the White House 202-456-1111, and your rep [phone] (opens TH 12/27)!

Tell them no cuts to Social Security, it does not add one nickel to the deficit! Cut defense instead.


Yes, I will keep posting this stuff until someone can give me a rational reason the President wants to take food out of the mouths of the elderly, while propping up Big War. Especially when Big War is 60% of the deficit, and Social Security does not add one nickel to the deficit.