The final word on the Tax cut "compromise"

[texshelters]

Congress and the White House to the Middle Class, “It’s for your own good”

The Democratic and Republican plutocrats have once again called on the spirit of the middle class in order to grant largess on the richest Americans while further abandoning the lower classes...

... This compromise appears to be the best Congress and the White House can do because they can’t upset their benefactors, the wealthy classes. That shows just how far out of touch with reality politics has become. And when the budget comes up for cuts, you can bet that Republicans and what’s left of the decimated Blue Dog Democrats will got after Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and the new health care bill, few of the only laws in the U.S. that help make our society more equitable.

Enjoy more here:
http://texshelters.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/congress-and-the-white-house-to-the-middle-class-%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-for-your-own-good%E2%80%9D/

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[RandomThoughts]

1. There is a doctrine.

It fits many doctrines, game doctrine, matrix doctrine, and a few others. It has a consistent motif, appeasement.

It is thought that 'spiritual powers' behind some groups, regardless if bad or not bad, should be appeased so they don't do what sociopaths do. Some do those things thinking that not rocking the boat is how to keep it afloat, but that is really getting into a bad boat and fearing the water.


However if done trying to spark conscious in the rich, that is a different story, although I don't think that is always the motive.

There is a better argument on that topic, trying to spark some conscious, but lets not forget to also spark the conscious in the poor by being kind to them also. The question becomes is kindness to the rich really the best idea when many poor need help also. It is also why the 1 that is found is more celebrated then the 99, and I understand that, but some of the 99 could use some help also.

I do understand that being nice to them is the only way to enact change, not because they have power, but because of the effect of sparking conscious in some people.

Lets not forget the millions of poor and middle class that have need of some kindness also.

[gratuitous]

2. Two more years for the affluent to party

While we pick up the tab. And then, in two years, the "best deal we can get" will once again preclude the affluent from the horror of paying an addition three cents on the dollar for their "earnings" over a quarter million a year. But social security recipients better get ready to tighten their belts, because of the "drain" of paying out benefits is too much for the Treasury to bear. Meanwhile, we'll be in Afghanistan making the rubble bounce for another decade in a futile effort to win hearts and minds.

[midnight]

3. I hope that is the statement they give to the bailed out banks that are going belly up again, but

this time allow them to go under...

[Atman]

4. The last word?

Hopefully not.

[texshelters]

6. Ha ha, just trying to get some readers

Because this is old news but I've been out of town.

Thanks Atman.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[sofa king]

5. The last word on it is going to be "again."

As in "happy days are here again," when we kick the snot out of the GOP by hitting them with the tax cut issue over and over again for two years, while preventing them from redeeming their present record by voting on a new extension.

Never in my life have I seen an entire political party go into a fresh session of Congress with the virtual certainty that that party is going to be roundly defeated in the next election. But that's how it is for the Republicans, thanks to President Obama's "compromise." He compromised them straight out of an election when the last one was barely weeks old.

[Still a Democrat]

7. The wealthy are supported by Republicans, not Democrats, on this issue

Anyone paying attention knows the Democrats objected all along and accepted it only as part of the compromise.

[Hydra]

8. Uh-huh...

And they were "forced" to sell it all out for the good of everyone, right?

[Still a Democrat]

9. Unless you have a conspiracy theory to share

both sides were pretty clear in saying tax cuts for the wealthy were included at Republican insistence.

[BeFree]

10. The devil made them do it?

Bwahahaha!

[Still a Democrat]

11. Well, if you want to call the GOP the devil, then yes

They had things of their own they wanted.

[BeFree]

12. Eh?

So the republicans made the democrats eat shit and give the richies a huge deficit ballooning tax break? What a bunch of idiots, right? How can they possibly be defended? How can any Dem defend being told what Dems will do by the republicans? Didn't we have a majority? Are the Dems a bunch of spineless goobers, or what?

[texshelters]

13. If you read the full article I wrote

you will realize that while this tax cuts for the rich movement is spearheaded by the Republicans, many Democrats went with it without much of a fight. President Obama is on the top of the capitulation list.

Peace,
Tex Shelters