Reply #14: If what we are being told is true, and things are so bad that [View All]

[sabrina 1]

they are even considering cutting SS and Medicare, such a state of emergency requires that those areas, such as the Bush Tax Cuts, now adding more to the deficit, be addressed immediately. Why can the president not go the people and put the Repubicans in a corner by telling them that regrettable though it is, they must end those cuts and he is calling on all members of Congress to 'do the right thing'. Make it an Election issue, let the Republicans try to explain why the elderly and disabled should be targeted, while Republicans protect the wealthy.

They certainly have no problem doing exactly that when it comes to the poor.