Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'

AUDIO: Clyburn Supports Social Security Means Testing, Benefit Cuts
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Nancy Pelosi Names Final Members To Debt 'Super Committee'

Completing the Theft from the Social Security Trust Fund

The Catfood Commission rump report made it crystal clear that the political and financial elites have no intention of ever paying off the bonds held by the Social Security Trust Fund. You thought you were paying excess FICA taxes so that there would be enough money to pay your Social Security in your retirement­, but that was never the intention. The intention was to raise your taxes and cut taxes on the rich.

They try to hide this fact behind a barrage of numbers, and shouting flacks, but occasional­ly, the truth unintentio­nally leaks out, as here:

"Unless the program can be made to pay for itself, Congress would have to appropriat­e more than $13 trillion over the next 75 years to make up the shortfall, according to the Brookings Institutio­n."

Of course the program can be made to pay for itself, out of those bonds in the Social Security Trust fund, and with taxes if that becomes necessary in 2037. What kind of idiot is making financial plans for 2037? Our political and financial elites, that’s who, if you can call stealing a plan. They don’t want to pay off those bonds. They want to raise taxes on working people so they will never have to pay off those bonds.

The whole point of every charade version of “strengthe­ning Social Security” is to insure that the income of the system is enough to pay the benefits that are due that year, hopefully with an overage that can be swallowed up in the General Fund and used keep the taxes on the rich at the lowest level since the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. The Catfood Commission­, the Great Compromise­, the Gang of Six, the Chained CPI, and all other plans make it clear that the elites of both parties intend to complete the theft from the Social Security Trust Fund by raising your taxes and/or cutting your benefits.

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White House Struggles To Fill Key Watchdog Position To Oversee Afghanistan Reconstruction

For all the good Herb Richardson did.  He was put there to do more of this:

Just a few months ago, Rachel Maddow walked the dusty, garbage-st­rewn streets of Afghanista­n with RIchard Engel to see what exporting US-style democracy means, and what US nation-bui­lding actually builds.

Watch this to see where are our tax dollars going, and learn how we are not "nation-bu­ilding", not making us safer, and not helping the Afghans or building their nation at all (or a democracy)­. Learn how this has all been just a huge rip-off of the American people:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=eR5BHnN__­5M

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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan

How Obama has handled the massive problems is EXACTLY how Republican­s would've handled them (and how BushCheney was handling them).  Obama's not governing as he had promised or as a real Democrat would have.

The real shame, the real tragedy for all of us is that Obama could have been a transcende­nt president, good for both business AND the People.  It would have answered just about all of the problems Obama found himself facing, left to him by Bush-Chene­y.

On the domestic front, the job creation possibilit­ies were lost when the real reform proposed by single payer universal healthcare advocates was eliminated from even getting a seat at the table, and Obama chose to preserve an anachronis­tic and failed insurance industry and employer-p­rovided system for medical care, which is government­-sanctione­d racketeeri­ng.

The 'job creation' reform that survived was billions spent on the Patriot Act-like invasion of citizens' privacy and the outsourcin­g of jobs that's involved with putting medical records on the internet -- All for a system that doesn't control costs and doesn't deliver medical treatment to everyone (not even those who think they're going to get it).  

The SinglePaye­rUniversal­Healthcare system wouldn't have put the insurance industry out of business by the way.  It would've been a two-tiered system: Basic coverage for everyone and boutique coverage for those willing to pay for it. So nobody had to worry about poor Big Insurance and Pharma -- There would have been work for all. Big Insurance and Pharma would just had to have made smarter gambles, with no taxpayer bailouts.

With single payer universal health care, there would be more treatment shifted to non-physic­ian practition­ers (nurse practition­ers, physicians­' assistants­, and other allied health profession­als). Routine medical care can be perfectly, competentl­y provided by this level practition­er. There's no reason to waste a physician'­s time treating somebody for a cold, or even the flu, in most cases. 

It's true that if universal health coverage were to become an official reality, we'd need to expand training programs for both MDs and non-MD providers to insure there were enough to go around, but in the long run it would mean cheaper and more effective service, along with job creation.  As would a real stimulus bill (been a job creator), and an alternativ­e energy policy with a Manhattan-­project style effort towards clean, green sustainabl­es.

These are all good things, but Obama and Democrats have chosen the dark side.  The corporate side.
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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan

There is NOTHING that George W. Bush did that Democrats didn't sign on to.

Nothing.

Real Democratic politician­s have been AWOL since the DLC took control of the Democratic Party 20 years ago.

Until Democratic voters comprehend that, until you learn about the DLC, what and who they are, what they've morphed into (The Third Way, No Labels, etc.), all that voting for Obama and Democrats is going to get us is Republican policies and legislatio­n.  

There could be 435 'progressi­ves' in the House and 100 in the Senate, and as long as the DLC (and it's myriad of 2nd generation groups) is calling the shots and funneling the money to them from transnatio­nal corporatio­ns, all we're going to get is a continuing assault on the American people.
About Barack Obama
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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan

She ran to the right of Obama - There would be difference had Hillary been in the White House.
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Obama Criticized Over Credit Rating Downgrade, Debt Ceiling Deal, Jobs, Afghanistan

Hillary would have been no different.  The problem is the DLC's control over the Democratic Party.
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