American Economy Poll Shows Voters Increasingly Pessimistic About Future

Pessimism implies acceptance of the situation; I'm angry about what's been done to us, and so is everybody I know.

The most BS argument to date is, "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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Obama Warns Cantor 'Don't Call My Bluff' As Debt Talks Stall

What you're saying is that you think Obama is looking for a face-savin­g deal.
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Obama Warns Cantor 'Don't Call My Bluff' As Debt Talks Stall

What do you think is going to happen in the next 48 hours?  What's the best case scenario look like in your head?
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Obama Warns Cantor 'Don't Call My Bluff' As Debt Talks Stall

Obama is pushing for $5 in spending cuts to every $1 in revenues raised.  That's what Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' are cheering him on to do.

In that $5 of spending cuts are benefits' cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits, pensions, and other programs.

Now if the choice was to raise the debt ceiling alone, a "clean bill", do nothing on the deficit until after the 2012 elections, what would you say?

That's the real issue here.

Like everything else that Obama's done, this isn't what Democratic voters put him and Democrats into power to do.  

I watch what's going on and I think this has to be how the Nazis felt as they watched their victims go off to their deaths by gas in the showers or to the edge of ravines to be shot with nary a peep or objection.
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Why Mitch McConnell Will Win the Day

I would rather Obama do nothing than what he's been doing, i.e., continuing the BushCheney policies and getting Republican policies through Congress and into the law of the land.
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Obama Warns Cantor 'Don't Call My Bluff' As Debt Talks Stall

What do you think Obama is selling?  $4 trillion in cuts to programs that the poor and middle class rely on to LIVE.  At the least, if it's not $4 trillion, then what Obama has already conceded is $1 trillion in cuts which include Social Security, Medicare, Medicare (and more) benefits' cuts.

So what you're supporting when you cheer Obama is the end of all of these programs.  

Get a clue, pal.
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Obama Walks Out Of Tense Debt Ceiling Meeting: Reports

You won't hear either until it's a done deal.

That wasn't my question, though.

What cuts are you okay with and what cuts aren't you okay with?

There's no reason for this to be done in secret, and yet that's what Obama is doing.  It's precisely what he campaigned against doing.  A healthy democracy depends on open and transparen­t government and an informed electorate­.
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