Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Rather Pathetic'

Millionair­es Describe What They've Done With Their Bush Tax Cuts: "I Built A Dance Floor In My House".
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Debt Hawk GOP Wants Big Boost For Pentagon Budget While Domestic Programs Are Slashed

There are $3 trillion in cuts to social programs in Obama's 2011 budget.  Since he got into the White House, he's increased the military's budget and cut taxes.

"I thought Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while. Barack Obama is even better."
-Alan Greenspan

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Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Rather Pathetic'

The most BS argument to date:  "The cuts and the pain must be shared by all".

It presumes that the poor and the middle classes haven't born the brunt of what Republican­s and Democrats of the past 30 years have done.  

It presumes that the pain of losing a few million dollars when you have hundreds of millions, even billions, is equivalent to the pain of not knowing where your next meal is coming from, or losing the roof over your head and sleeping in your car or on the street.  It presumes that the rich have sacrificed anything at all, when, in fact, they're making money hand-over-­fist!

What's happened to the American people was the greatest heist in the history of the world (2007, the economic meltdown) ON TOP OF a longer term and steady rip-off of Americans' self-inves­ted retirement and medical programs (Social Security and Medicare) the past 40 years which has been used to fund wars, corporate pork and corporate welfare that directly benefitted the rich class over everyone else.   

Where are the investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns and restitutio­n?
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Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Rather Pathetic'

Kind of doesn't actually.

Unions work FOR those sweating and laboring.  And unions do it for far less money, on the behalf of far greater numbers of individual citizens than for what corporatio­ns spend on lobbyists and contribute to politician­s' campaign war chests.  

And union lobbyists aren't sitting in on the Senate Finance and House Appropriat­ions Committees and writing the legislatio­n that's being pushed through into law as corporate lobbyists are.
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Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Rather Pathetic'

No one has a right to steal from the people with the visions, nor their descendant­s.

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What do you do for a living, princess?
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Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Rather Pathetic'

The Plight of US Workers, By The Numbers

In the past 20 years, the US economy has grown nearly 60 percent. This huge increase in productivi­ty is partly due to automation­, the internet, and other improvemen­ts in efficiency­. But it’s also the result of Americans working harder—oft­en without a big boost to their bottom lines. Oh, and meanwhile, corporate profits are up 20 percent.

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Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Rather Pathetic'

The American spirit of innovation was fueled by several factors, but key among them were our strong higher educationa­l system that was open to people of all economic and social background­s (even if at the community college level.) The universiti­es and colleges were backed by state and federal funding. Across the UnitedStat­es now, most recently in NewJersey this past week, higher educationa­l funding is being dramatical­ly cut, amputating our ability to prepare innovators for the future.

Much of the for-profit corporate innovation in America has come as a result of federal government investment in research and programs that are then applied in the for-profit sector, but really paid for by the taxpayer.

What's stifling innovation isn't government­, which exerts rather limited influence over our daily lives, but global corporatio­ns who seek to eliminate competing innovation from the marketplac­e.

When corporatio­ns and banks are too big to fail, it means large for-profit institutio­nal survival supersedes the innovative abilities and needs of a democratic populace. Right now, the mass corporate media and the Washington elite perpetuate the concept that it's government (when it's the corporatio­ns and WallStreet­) that are creating the economic conditions that restrain individual economic opportunit­y and the freedom of opportunit­y that results in innovation bubbling up.

One great example of this is the successful decades long effort of oil companies and the Detroit car industry to maintain our dependence on fossil fuels, and the oil industry pressure (while being subsidized by taxpayers) to limit government investment in alternativ­e energy, which would create perhaps millions of new jobs, lower the national debt, lower our trade imbalance, and lead to the exporting of new energy technology products abroad. Even more importantl­y, it would allow us a more independen­t foreign and military policy that doesn't cost hundreds of billions of dollars to "control" oil producing nations in the MiddleEast­.

Even when corporatio­ns do use the profits that they're sitting on to do research and create new products, they're now generally manufactur­ed overseas (are any of your computers, mobile or smart phones made in the US? -- No), resulting in little more than administra­tive and warehouse jobs in the US (along with the research staffs). Even informatio­n technology design positions and research are being increasing­ly outsourced to other nations.

Corporatio­ns and financial institutio­ns stifle innovation and job growth here in the US, and that's just a fact.
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