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Billionaires for Austerity: With Cuts Looming, Wall Street Roots of "Fix the Debt" Campaign Exposed (Original Post) Triana Apr 2013 OP
We have over 300 million people. dotymed Apr 2013 #1
TAKE TO THE STREET'S, it was taken to the streets remember ows.they sat around and let themselves leftyohiolib Apr 2013 #4
For years I wait to hear about the laws on the books to create jobs, but they don't follow the law.. midnight Apr 2013 #2
Everyone of those MFers can come by and kiss my ass. Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 #3
Billionaire Pete Peterson has gone after the middle class for many years Faygo Kid Apr 2013 #5
K&R. JDPriestly Apr 2013 #6
We should flip the debt not Fix the Debt octoberlib Apr 2013 #7
+1. Definitely. n/t Triana Apr 2013 #8
Not going down without a fight played from all sides: freshwest Apr 2013 #9
Fix the debt = transfer of wealth and power to the billionaires. Initech Apr 2013 #10
If it were up to me I'd Castro/Chavez them f*ckers. L0oniX Apr 2013 #11

dotymed

(5,610 posts)
1. We have over 300 million people.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 11:40 AM
Apr 2013

We are going to allow the OLIGARCHS to win this war that they have started?
TAKE TO THE STREET'S, it is our only hope.

 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
4. TAKE TO THE STREET'S, it was taken to the streets remember ows.they sat around and let themselves
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 12:09 PM
Apr 2013

get pepper-sprayed

midnight

(26,624 posts)
2. For years I wait to hear about the laws on the books to create jobs, but they don't follow the law..
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 11:41 AM
Apr 2013

Instead they create chaos.....

Faygo Kid

(21,477 posts)
5. Billionaire Pete Peterson has gone after the middle class for many years
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:42 PM
Apr 2013

He is obsessed with assuring the power of the 1/10 of 1 percent and destroying the middle class. Always has been.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
6. K&R.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:50 PM
Apr 2013

And while we are at it, I would like to make a personal disclaimer.

I have posted a lot against the cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

I do not receive any compensation other than my Social Security and Medicare benefits that are in any way related to Social Security or Fix the Debt or any other organization interested in these issues.

And in my professional life, I never worked in a field related to Social Security or Medicare or any issues closely enough related to those issues to cause me to have a conflict of interest.

Peterson made allusions to "special interest groups" launching campaigns on this issue.

I belong to the Democratic Party. I do not even belong to AARP.

So, this is one senior speaking for herself. I would like to know who among those posting to DU are affiliated with any organization that lobbies or has a potential legislative impact on Social Security or Medicare.

Let's establish a fair playing field here.

There is one DUer who comes up with amazingly well documented posts in very short periods of time. I've done a lot of research in my life. This DUer's posts look professional, and the research he comes up with takes a lot of time. I've been suspicious this very sensible person who is so extremely pro-Obama and raises in response to any criticism of Obama a long list of positives with researched links might be a "special interest." Let's be honest about whether we are paid to post on DU.

I am not paid to post on DU. You can probably guess that from my long-winded, typo-ridden posts.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
7. We should flip the debt not Fix the Debt
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 01:52 PM
Apr 2013

They need to pay their damn share of taxes. http://www.flipthedebt.org


An influential front group of Wall St. Corporations calling itself ‘Fix The Debt’ is demanding we cut social support programs like Social Security and Medicare in order to reduce the deficit. The funny part? Our deficit is so huge because these very same corporations - and the wealthiest 1% - have been rigging the rules to exploit loopholes, tax havens and tax cuts for years!

Can you believe:

Since 2001, we've stacked up a whopping $1 trillion in debt from Tax Cuts for the 1%.1
Another $1.3 trillion is from wealthy corporations like GE, Verizon and Bank of America, which pay little or no taxes.2
This corporate tax dodging adds up to $2.3 trillion stolen from the US treasury, and keeps growing by $100 billion a year.3
The combined bill for all this? Way more than the $1.6 trillion in cuts that Congress is debating.


Initech

(99,915 posts)
10. Fix the debt = transfer of wealth and power to the billionaires.
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 02:04 PM
Apr 2013

We cannot allow them to get away with this! If this doesn't cause us to get off our asses and into the streets, what will?

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