It is being reported -- as breaking news -- right here at HuffPost (thanks, Sam Stein!) that the "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" known better as the "Debt Commission" will recommend big cuts to Social Security and Medicare, plus, tax hikes to 'shore up' those programs.
I am very curious to see how the white, old, rural, male, Southerners (WORMS) that toted their oxygen tanks to the "Tea Party" rallies -- and railed against "big government" -- will react to the prospect of their federal umbilical cords being crimped? For all their bloviating, screaming and rudeness, these low information voters have no idea just how much that "big government" has done and still does for them.
Will they, now, scream and yell about their benefits being cut? Will their Republican handlers tell them "suck it up, sons, ya gotta be tough -- spit on it, rub a little dirt on it, be self-reliant, take personal responsibility" or will the Republicans pander to them?
I am very curious to see!
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- the GOP will blame Pres. Obama for the ransacking of medicaid and SS (as proposed by the debt commission), and this will become further "proof" that he's a "socialist"....(as suggested by the GOP and stated as being their top priority: the undermining of the president, GOP goal #1).
- working families will be pitted against families that have lost jobs, while corporations sit back with popcorn to watch the battle lines being drawn and class warfare tensions rising....while families are pitted against one another, and corporations and millionaires walk away with tax loopholes, no taxes, and big bonuses that came at the tax payers expense when main street was raided by wall street. Those who still have homes will be pitted against those losing their homes, while millionaires in the senate make sure that they don't lose their cram down privileges, nor their LOOP HOLES (as in RI, where yacht owners apparently can avoid taxes on BIG BOATS by having them shipped to that state...yes?)
And the biggest kicker of all? The republicans will pin all of this on the democrats (who in effect through their own negligence, greed, or sell out of the people's mandate in 2008) - who will end up taking the hit in 2012.
Let's face it, conservatives are against ANYTHING government does, even if it is cost efficient, beneficial and right.
Teabaggers would LOVE social security, if it were out of the government's hands.
They are driven solely by ideology and blind rage over a black man in the white house.
The government could turn lead into gold and these racists would complain the government is depressing the gold markets.
Where are the teabaggers protesting all of the recent news from the GOP that is contrary to their agenda?
What, it's OK if white folk do it?