How do you feel about the term "Cat Food Commission" being used for the Deficit Commission ? [View All]

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If you don't know what it refers to here is an article that explains it:

Deficit Commission Co-Chair: Social Security T-Bills Have "Been Used"

June 18, 2010
-- by Dave Johnson

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2010/06/deficit_commiss.htm

......The Commission: Now there is the Deficit Commission looking into how to raise money to cover what the government handed out as tax cuts to the rich. Rather than get the money from where the money went, the plutocrats are instead trying to convince people that it would make more sense to just cut Social Security instead, so they don't have to pay it back. The commission is meeting in secret, preparing to recommend cutting Social Security benefits. Hence the nickname for the Commission: "Cat food Commission," because cutting Social Security would force as many as 1.5 million old people into poverty and eating cat food for dinner because it costs less.

(more at link)
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