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Showing Original Post only (View all)It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement [View all]
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- It was obvious the two-year agreement was a deficit hawks dream based on Speaker of the House John Boehners response to the Koch Brothers, Freedom Works, Heritage Action, Americans for Prosperity, and Club For Growth. Boehner accused the teabagger groups of using our members and using the American people for their own goals. Listen, if youre for more deficit reduction, youre for this agreement. Boehner is right, the budget is all about reducing the already falling deficit and nothing about revenue by closing corporate and the wealthys tax loopholes that would have made the austerity budget palatable. Since 2010, the victims of austerity-mad Republicans have never been the richest Americans, and the only difference in this agreement and earlier austerity is it targets a different segment of the population; federal employees.
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What is curious about this agreement is not that Ryan likely pushed hard for a deep austerity-laden budget, but that Murray acquiesced to an economic theory that is proven to ravage an economy during a tepid recovery. Has Murray not been conscious to see the devastation in Europe after three years of austerity, or have Republicans so polluted the minds of Democrats that they think trying the same failed policies over and over again will have a different result because this is America? And where was revenue-producing tax reform by closing loopholes for corporations and the filthy rich? There were no provisions for infrastructure improvements guaranteed to create jobs, and those tiny two-year reductions in the sequester cuts still do not address the devastation over the next nine years the cuts will do their worst damage and kill millions of jobs. It is beyond the pale that Murray could stand there next to Ryan and announce a budget agreement as acceptable giving everything Republicans lusted for two years ago that Senate and House Democrats rejected out of hand as barbaric and totally unacceptable in 2011 and 2012.
This so-called agreement is as unacceptable today as Ryans Path to Prosperity was two years ago, and worse, it contains deeper discretionary spending cuts than Democrats railed against then. Of course Republicans love it, it contains no revenue, or tax reform affecting their dirty rich patrons, and it pays for the minute sequester cuts with other entitlement cuts and federal employees pensions. If any American depended on Murray, or her Democratic colleagues, to fight for Americans and wage a war on economy devastating austerity, they can put those hope to rest because it is apparent that the negotiators were unconscious during last years election. Agreeing to this budget sent a clear message to Americans that Democrats lost the 2012 elections and Republicans won; especially the war on austerity.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/12/obvious-democrats-compromising-budget-agreement.html
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It’s Obvious That Democrats Did All the Compromising on The Budget Agreement [View all]
Segami
Dec 2013
OP
That title is odd - As it's clear that there are lots of things Republicans didn't get
el_bryanto
Dec 2013
#1
Your daughter doesn't have the power to burn the house down if she doesn't get a cat
el_bryanto
Dec 2013
#5
The GOP got those drastic, unheard of cuts in 2011 thanks to Obama's blundering.
geek tragedy
Dec 2013
#17
No, they really want to spend less, a lot less, especially on programs that help people. nt
geek tragedy
Dec 2013
#16
Republicans may not have gotten everything they wanted, but Dems got nothing but more sacrifice.
Scuba
Dec 2013
#3
Bingo! Another sideways stumble toward disaster that we're supposed to cheer for. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#28
obvious to all but the willfully blind - yes. But I suppose if you are being offered cancer and you
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2013
#14
this was a compromise budget and the GOP didn't get much of anything that they
beachbum bob
Dec 2013
#33