Say Hello to the Enemy.... Game On Motherfuckers!!
Last edited Mon Nov 26, 2012, 06:26 PM - Edit history (3)
(on edit: I put the word 'Motherfuckers' back into the OP headline... the general consensus if that, in this case, the word Motherfucker is, most definitely appropriate)
This Article at Huffpo, if you haven't seen it already, is blowing up all over facebook and twitter....
I Have seen several posts over the last ten days or so on DU as well on the same topic... this article however, is putting some fuel to the fire and is starting to stir up some well deserved outrage. 
link to article
WASHINGTON -- The corporate CEOs who have made a high-profile foray into deficit negotiations have themselves been substantially responsible for the size of the deficit they now want closed.
The companies represented by executives working with the Campaign To Fix The Debt have received trillions in federal war contracts, subsidies and bailouts, as well as specialized tax breaks and loopholes that virtually eliminate the companies' tax bills.
The CEOs are part of a campaign run by the Peter Peterson-backed Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, which plans to spend at least $30 million pushing for a deficit reduction deal in the lame-duck session and beyond.
During the past few days, CEOs belonging to what the campaign calls its CEO Fiscal Leadership Council (see pdf pages below listing memebrs) -- most visibly, Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein and Honeywell's David Cote -- have barnstormed the media, making the case that the only way to cut the deficit is to severely scale back social safety-net programs -- Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security -- which would disproportionately impact the poor and the elderly.
As part of their push, they are advocating a "territorial tax system" that would exempt their companies' foreign profits from taxation, netting them about $134 billion in tax savings, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies titled "The CEO Campaign to ‘Fix’ the Debt: A Trojan Horse for Massive Corporate Tax Breaks" -- money that could help pay off the federal budget deficit.
Yet the CEOs are not offering to forgo federal money or pay a higher tax rate, on their personal income or corporate profits. Instead, council recommendations include cutting "entitlement" programs, as well as what they call "low-priority spending."
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Here is the LIST of all of the CEO's who will do anything to continue to steal from us:
Here is their Bullshit Website http://www.fixthedebt.org/
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the time at DU? I am seriously outraged... and that word, really hit the spot, again, any suggestions would be welcomed 
Thanks for the heads up though....
not change a thing in your OP!
They ARE mOtherfuckers!! I hope P. Obama do Not cave in. I hope he gibes them a fight!
I say fuck all that nonsense.motherfucker might not look so good on the Homepage 
we are who we are, and we are mad as hell!
definitely needed it
We're adults!
hehheh heheh hehhehheh.
Just not enough room in the op subject line
I was laughing pretty hard when I wrote it, but make no mistake, I share your sentiment entirely! In all honesty though, it's one of my all-time favorites...
ugly-demon-nightmare-(insert your issue or epithet here)-from-hell. And for the sensitive folks you can trade the word "hell" for "outerspace". Works every time.
Or needle-dick bug-fucker. Little things like that.
thanks
op didn't seem right without it....
I send way more time reading DU material than fb material... still review my fb a couple times daily... but DU is way more deep and interesting, and honest... when I posted the op last night... this article mad me furious and I used the most honest word that came to me when I wrote the subject line... and motherfuckers it was!
try facebooking the actual article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/25/deficit-reduction-council-fiscal-cliff_n_2185585.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
and then post the thread link http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021882694 with the comment 'Discussion thread at DU'
how does that sound?
From Obama.... I think he had his heart and mind in the right place.... Once he realizes who and what he needs to be protecting... It'll be game on from him too... I have a good feeling about this next round of fisticuffs....
just felt i needed to add that. I felt i needed to reply based on the Congressional Healthcare issue. It's stuck in my craw for awhile now. That's pretty damn good health care and they have to serve, what 2+ terms and they get it for life? That's 5 freaking years... enough to DO ANYTHING to get a 3rd term just so they could get excellent HC forever.
Been what you'd call a "big" Ed Rendell fan for this very reason....
No way those assholes will take away our benefits, and get away with it.
That would leave me (and many others) with nothing left to lose, and we will start fighting them for real.
Keep pushing mutherfuckers. We have just about had it with you.
How the HELL do you STOP THIS SHIT??? You can't just boycott these products and that's it. When is the rest of the country going to WAKE THE HELL UP??? Do we have to have 1 million, 5 million, 10 million or more, marching on DC and in every major city of this country?? Would anyone even pay attention if we did have millions in every city, protesting??
I know that I'm being a worrywart and quite possibly a drama queen here, but I'm getting seriously scared, disgusted, and actually nauseous, thinking that we're going to be sold down the river!!
Talk about dependency on "big gub'mint." These guys are robbing the store six ways from Sunday, and the pitiful Red State denizens are carrying their water -- you know, all those craptastic lines like "heroic job creators," and "what's wrong with being successful?"
These cutthroats are ON THE DOLE, taking it from OUR pockets, and they want it ALL.
...As with the whole Papa John's fiasco, we shouldn't just say, "Don't buy Papa John's pizza," we should also say, "Get pizza from some small, local place instead." Because part of the stranglehold these companies have is that customers are unaware of any alternatives. They advertise so much, and have so many stores that people don't think anything equal or even better exists. So if we say, "Don't by anything from Macy's" that's not good enough. We also need to say, "Try Nordstrom's instead" or something like that.
Because these CEOs are able to spew such crap because they believe not only that they are invulnerable, but that customers are enslaved to them as workers used to be enslaved to the company store. They believe that customers have no alternative or choice--or at least that customers have been brainwashed to think they have no alternative or choice.
So when you make up and pass around these lists of evil CEO's and their companies--offer alternatives. Because what these arrogant asses are saying is going to make people mad, and they are going to want to avoid those companies. But doing without a flight on Jet Blue isn't going to be nearly as clear a message as doing without flights on Jet Blue in favor of flights on: (fill in the blank here of a good, undervalued, American airline). Let's not just punish the bad CEOs, let's reward the small businesses and good CEOs--and make people see that they don't have to do "without" in order to do "without." 
I believe I heard on the msm this morning that the cost to the consumer for Walmart to pay it’s employees a “living wage” (generally considered to be about $12.50 an hour) would be $17 a year.
Who’s keeping notes?
Is that what they want? 
Didn't work back then in '29... but I guess they were not born yet?
with that is that they already employ many psycho killers in that rarely heard of anymore institution formerly known as Blackwater. Don't forget them as they may end up doing the dirty work once the war between the people and the oligarchs heats up.
Just sayin'...
scare tactics seems to work or so they believe. We shall see.
Their "concern" is greed deep and those working stiffs carrying water for these vultures need to see that.
The misery inflicted on the world gave us the New Deal. We need the Second New Deal. Or better.
The Second New Deal is the term used by commentators at the time[1] and historians ever since to characterize the second stage of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In his address to Congress in January 1935, Roosevelt called for three major goals: improved use of national resources, security against old age, unemployment and illness, and slum clearance, as well as a national welfare program (the WPA) to replace state relief efforts.
It is usually dated 1935-36, and includes programs to redistribute wealth, income and power in favor of the poor, the old, farmers and labor unions. The most important programs included Social Security, the National Labor Relations Act ("Wagner Act" , the Banking Act, rural electrification, and breaking up utility holding companies.
Programs that were later ended by the Supreme Court or the Conservative Coalition included WPA, NYA, the Resettlement Administration, and programs for retail price control, farm rescues, coal stabilization, and taxes on the rich and the Undistributed profits tax.
Liberals in Congress passed the Bonus Bill of $1.5 billion to 3 million World War veterans over FDR's veto. Liberals strongly supported the new direction, and formed the New Deal Coalition of union members, big city machines, the white South, and ethnic minorities to support it;
and conservatives—typified by the American Liberty League were strongly opposed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_New_Deal
We need this or something like it to rise up out of the OFA organization, which has not dissolved yet:
The New Deal Coalition was the alignment of interest groups and voting blocs that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until the late 1960s. It made the Democratic Party the majority party during that period, losing only to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. Franklin D. Roosevelt forged a coalition that included the Democratic state party organizations, city machines, labor unions and blue collar workers, minorities (racial, ethnic and religious), farmers, white Southerners, people on relief, and intellectuals.[1]
The coalition fell apart around the bitter factionalism during the 1968 election, but it remains the model that party activists seek to replicate.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_Coalition
We're dealing with the same opposing philosophies and interests now as then, except the media is in conservative hands. It makes organizing for our ideas through media very difficult. So we must go back to the grass roots to give the liberal majority in Congress. Our work is cut out for us.
taking food out of the mouths of hungry babies and elderly people so they can have another dozen houses and cars and politicians.
I say we curse them all until they do right by this country. They are a disgrace.
In other words, we need Anonymous
K&R
Madness. I have never seen such madness in my life or read it in a book of fiction. It's diabolical. Evil incarnate. Total effing madness in the United States of America.
These guys made the debt, now they need to pay for it, not the American People. If those Bush tax cuts don't pass away on New Year's Eve, with no stings attached, I say it's time to reactivate the 99% protests, only get SERIOUS. about it this time. Not just a few hundred people here or there, but hundreds of thousands of people in the streets all over this country, and especially in Washington DC. And keep it up until our demands are met. And make some GD demands!!!!!!! Be specific, GDit.
Really, I look at that public pronouncement as a declaration of war by the 1% upon the 99%.
Something is happening here, and I think it's perfectly clear. It's an economic war on the People of the United States of America.
"..they hate us for our freedom."
The chancellor may have to extend the squeeze on public spending until 2018 if the recent deterioration in growth prospects and tax receipts turns out to be permanent, a think tank has said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20470864
London (CNN) -- Amid a din of whistles and klaxons, and bearing banners emblazoned with "No cuts" and "Austerity is failing," thousands of protesters marched past London's landmarks Saturday in a show of popular anger over government cutbacks.
"I don't like the government's policy, I don't think it works and I think the most vulnerable people suffer -- that's why I'm here," said one woman on the march.
The planned cuts to services and payments that help the sick and disabled are "shameful," she said.
Culminating in a mass rally in Hyde Park, the protest, staged by unions representing public sector workers and others, reflects a rising tide of discontent among many over the austerity measures brought in or proposed by the coalition government
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/20/world/europe/uk-anti-austerity-march/index.html
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/29/14152479-spain-portugal-hit-with-anti-austerity-protests?lite
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Jeesus on a stick, how the hell are we supposed to fight that many fucking billionaires? It really brings it home how badly screwed we all really are.
Shoot them all.
profit before people. Not surprised, outraged or anything. Just confirms my corporate-fascist suspicions. By getting all the cuts they want in medicare, medicaid and social security they will gain complete control of people's lives. It's a power and profit thing with the greed merchants.
Really these fucking CEOs are no better than common criminals. They just get away with it and on a grand scale. This practice of just flat out grifting should be completely illegal yet in our society not only is it common practice our stupid bullshit media encourages it.
Hopefully it wont get so bad that you will have to start staying in youth hostels?
Stick with T-Mobile, if you can. An interesting little story: someone close to me has worked for both T-Mobile and AT&T in rough succession when we moved from place to place. One raised her pay often, gave good benefits, and offered bonuses and gifts (including free phones!) The other raised her insurance rates every time she got a raise in pay; gave cheap, low, health benefits; and their idea of a "prize/incentive" for her superb performance was to give her either an extra hundred bucks or the "opportunity" to attend "conventions" and meet with the higher-ups...and, often, she would have had to pay to do so. Impossible standards and weak rewards. Peachy, huh? I'll let you decide which was which based on those lists up there.
Let's just say that I practically knew AT&T's CEO would be on these lists.
OK, there's still a 12-year-old in me that can't help it.
I wonder what the organizations prospectus looked like? had to be full of bs, i'm sureI just heard it on Eliot Spitzer's show.
If that's the case, why'd we bother to vote 3 weeks ago? Every stinkin' working schmuck in America just got thrown under the bus by POTUS.
