New Poll: Seniors Of Both Parties Revile Chained CPI - Joan Walsh/Salon

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24. I'm not duped by

any of this political maneuvering. The people pushing for these cuts are Wall Street, the corporate media and extremists that hate Obama for other reasons. There are Democratic politicians in Congress that are attached to Wall Street and corporations. Greed is what is pushing them. Obama thinks he has to compromise with them because most of these institutions and people control what happens in the economy.

There is enough money to create new investments but it is those people holding the economy hostage. If you look at this on a smaller scale, it is like the NBA owners versus the NBA players. Unions are not the only ones that have unionized, but these corporations have also. They have spent millions, even billions of dollars to control Congress. There is really no competition when these corporations monopolize. They create organizations that are too big to fail. The only competitor left is the Federal Government. It really doesn't come down to the President but Congress. People supporting the right wing Republicans are really the ones to blame because they are not voting for their own interests. They are voting for the interests of people like the Kochs.

It will be counter productive to target the President because the President isn't responsible for legislation. The Republicans and Congress want you to believe that. The public has it within their power to control the Congress. The best solution is to get rid of the Republican Congress period. You send the Republican Congress a message in 2014, then the rest of those politicians will get the message. Regardless of the Gerrymandering, it is people that vote. Those people in these red districts need to be educated who the real enemy is. Take the whole Social Security and Medicare issue, and tie it around the Republicans' necks in their districts like an albatross. Forget about this compromise garbage and think about 2014. We are already over three months into the year. There are plenty od Republican Governors right now in swing or Blue states, the Democrats can go after in 2014.