I am a little upset about this.... [View all]

[geckosfeet]

Kind of an interesting interactive analysis of some budget proposals. Shows how the decreases and increases proposed by the various factions compare to each other. The thing that stands out most to me is the alignment of decreases in SS and Medicare spending. Especially SS. (What is being "decreased" in SS anyway? This is a funded benefit.)

Analysis of Obama's budget finds a higher tax burden for most Americans

Honestly - I am OK with paying $150 more a year in taxes - if it means national health care and improved SS funding! But basically we are paying down the debts incurred from enriching the wealthy and bailing out corporations and waging perpetual war.

Granted, The O budget decreases defense spending a good bit, but I fully oppose reducing funding for SS and funding for medicare. We should be moving that ball in the other direction. My jaw dropped when I saw how seniors and the sick are being thrown under the bus.

Corporations are sitting on huge piles of cash that they accumulated over the last 15 years or so. The rich continue to get richer. And now it appears that we are poised to take more from the poorest and least able among us to continue the policy of selective enrichment.

The battle over the 2014 budget