If Congress really cared about the deficit, shouldn't they let the tax cuts expire?

[Dulcinea]

Just sayin'....

[Autumn]

1. My new theory is that

they don't fucking care. I am sure they will personally benefit from this very much. That came to me yesterday after my call to Bennets office.

[Dulcinea]

7. It's a lot of lip service.

I agree, they don't care. They're protecting their own incomes.

[Cant trust em]

2. They only care about the deficit if it means not making any hard choices.

Yammering on with empty rhetoric seems to be the preferred option.

[rfranklin]

6. The deficit means "hard choices" for social security, medicare...

and other programs that the Republicans want to destroy because they mean votes for Democrats. It's that simple.

[JamesA1102]

3. Yes they should

and cut defense spending by 2/3rds.

[bullimiami]

4. Maybe youre not getting the magic of trickle down economics.

It has worked brilliantly since the tax cuts pumped the cash gusher uphill.
All the way down, multiplying its effect, and the economy ... booming like never before.
If we stop it now it will be an economic disaster. DISASTER.

[Nite Owl]

5. We will pay for these tax cuts

in a more painful form when they 'get serious' about cutting the deficit. Then it will need to be SS and Medicare, programs that will help those who need them. They got theirs and we don't matter. This was the time for the President to be the grown up and tell us what getting tax cuts would really mean in the end. They should have been limited, targeted to job growth and those most in need like the unemployed.

[Jamastiene]

8. They think we are so ignorant that we cannot see the writing on the wall.

They don't care about the deficit. They just want a trumped up reason to cut Social Security, Medicare, and later Medicaid. They don't realize we aren't as ignorant as they think we are. We see right through them, but we aren't supposed to say that. They'll call us terrorists if they hear us calling bullshit...or fucking retards...or professional left...or who knows how many other names they call us that we haven't heard yet.

Two songs keep playing in my head and seem to fit all this bullshit perfectly. "Kill The Poor" and "When Ya Get Drafted" both by the Dead Kennedys. Both songs seem to define the last 10 years perfectly.

[HughBeaumont]

9. This is what RepubliCorporateAmerica would want, but cannot say -

Tax hikes for those making under 250,000 a year.
Tax hikes for small businesses.
Tax elimination for those making above 1,000,000 a year.
Tax elimination for large corporations.
Privatized everything, from mail to parks to roads to wars to schools to libraries.
CEO presidents running America like a publicly-traded company.
No Net Neutrality.

These people are consummate pigs. They don't care who they hurt. They just don't care.

[Dulcinea]

10. kick. eom