Huff Po: Blue Dog Dems who say we can't afford unemployment extension want to extend Bush Tax Cuts©

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Robert Reich



Former Secretary of Labor; Professor at Berkeley; Author, 'Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future'
Posted: November 17, 2010 03:07 PM

Why the Lame Duck Congress Must Extend Jobless Benefits For Hard-hit Families But Not Tax Cuts For the Rich

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-the-lame-duck-congres_b_785001.html

Republicans and many blue-dog Democrats say we can't afford another extension.

But these are many of the same people who say we should extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy for at least another two years.

Extending the Bush tax cuts for the top 1 percent would cost an estimated $120 billion over the next two years. That's more than another unemployment benefit extension would cost.

The unemployed need the money. The rich don't.

[MaeScott]

1. Remember the names of the remaining blue dogs....

.....providing cover for the g no p corporatists. Remember their names and their votes. Then primary them.

[madrchsod]

2. you mean..THE PLOT TO RUIN CHRISTMAS!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

i noticed they reduced the size of the font. the real headline for the article is`t close to that and neither is the article.

is huffington another politico with better writers?

[OHdem10]

3. Is anyone really surprised????

[socialist_n_TN]

5. My thoughts exactly

nm

[mod mom]

4. " The Bush tax cuts on the top never trickled down." but like the GOP, facts matter little to DINOs