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Fri Oct-21-11 11:11 PM
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Super Congress to cut SS, Medicare, and Medicaid in order to preserve military industrial complex. |
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The Super Committee is coming to consensus on a plan that will slash Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in order to preserve the military industrial complex. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/10/pentagon-looking-safe-super-committees-cuts/43974/http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2161681Please write and call the committee, your representatives, and the White House to express your outrage. http://www.whitehouse.gov/contacthttp://www.give5.org/take_action_joint_committee And please do everything you can to support OWS. They appear to be our only hope.
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Fri Oct-21-11 11:23 PM
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No one on either side will stop it either. Can we expect a veto from Obama? Hell no. He's in agreement.
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Fri Oct-21-11 11:28 PM
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2. Banks make lots of money in endless war. Not much money to be made with SS.. |
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Medacare or anything benefiting the people.
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Fri Oct-21-11 11:50 PM
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3. Unrecc for fear-mongering for unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. |
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Sat Oct-22-11 12:13 AM
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6. Rec for reporting what some would have buried in the name of false partisanship /nt |
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Sat Oct-22-11 12:35 AM
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8. The atlantic is actually respected |
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Huzzah!
Enjoy the increased protests. Fuel, gasoline, match. Oxygen...
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Sat Oct-22-11 08:30 AM
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15. So, we'll just ignore it until they finish their work? No way. |
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You know that's the way it'll turn out, the Pentagon stands while all around it lies in ruins, don't you?
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Sat Oct-22-11 12:10 AM
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4. The Super Villains Committee, you mean! nt |
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Sat Oct-22-11 12:13 AM
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5. Gee...maybe this might inspire (hell, demand) more #Occupying! |
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Sat Oct-22-11 12:25 AM
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7. GOSH, DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THE KILLING MACHINE??? |
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Sat Oct-22-11 12:43 AM
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9. If they do that in this political climate, it's going to be like throwing gasoline on a fire. |
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Edited on Sat Oct-22-11 12:44 AM by Marr
I have little doubt that they will. Our political class is supremely arrogant and out of touch and frankly, I think that was the whole point of this super committee anyway. They couldn't make the cuts happen during that debt ceiling charade, and had to put it off and reorganize it.
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Sat Oct-22-11 05:45 AM
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and it will affect votes for Obama in the next election if he does not veto.
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Sat Oct-22-11 06:12 PM
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23. Reorganize it behind closed doors. |
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This story was buried in the media. The committee is trying to work as quietly as possible, in the hope that this can happen quickly, with as little push back as possible.
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Sat Oct-22-11 01:15 AM
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10. More contact information. Please call and write now. |
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Edited on Sat Oct-22-11 01:21 AM by woo me with science
Link to White House contact page, including telephone numbers and email: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contactLinks to individual Super Commmittee members' web pages and contact information, including telephone numbers and addresses: http://www.deficitreduction.gov/public/index.cfm/membersGeneral page for emailing the Super Committee as a whole: http://www.deficitreduction.gov/public/Contact pages for other senators and representatives: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtmlAnd please keep helping: www.occupywallst.org
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Sat Oct-22-11 01:25 AM
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11. With no war in Iraq after 2012 |
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We should have plenty of money for such programs in the future.
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Sat Oct-22-11 05:46 AM
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13. not to mention SS isn't broke |
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and simply raising the cap would solve the problem forever.
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Sat Oct-22-11 08:01 AM
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14. The Congress and administration appear to have other plans. nt |
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Sat Oct-22-11 08:48 AM
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16. What a load of shit. Did any of you all bother to look and see what the source was? |
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An investment analyst had an opinion that agrees with a poll taken by a magazine and this is the basis for the article. What a load of shit.
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Sat Oct-22-11 08:51 AM
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17. People on this board believe what they want to believe |
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Never mind that the article has a laughable premise and methodology. They want to be really really mad.
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Sat Oct-22-11 09:03 AM
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20. Yup .... more manufactured outrage. |
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Sat Oct-22-11 08:55 AM
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18. No surprise here - austerity comes to the US. Time to resist. nt |
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Sat Oct-22-11 08:58 AM
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19. This is setup for failure-Automatic cut to take effect following term date |
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Sat Oct-22-11 09:03 AM
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21. Did anyone really ever doubt that cutting SS, Medicare and Medicaid were the intended primary goal |
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of the super committee from the get go? Congress members could never have voted on such cuts and been reelected, so the super committee was developed to mandate the cuts, while giving Congress members the advantage of plausible deniability, "I would have never voted for it", they can say, but the cuts are done just the same. The talk of cuts to the military budget were simply a talking point diversion to misdirect public attention, and concern, away from the Super Committee as long as possible. I said this back when the Super Committee was formed, as the reason for it, and the real goals for it, were quite obvious. Americans are so easily duped.
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Sat Oct-22-11 09:53 AM
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22. Anyone in denial is in denial of the original intent, the sole purpose of the Cat-food Commission |
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Sat Oct-22-11 07:11 PM
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24. No surprise here, military budget is never on the table. |
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Sat Oct-22-11 10:52 PM
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25. For weekly talking points see-- |
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Sat Oct-22-11 10:57 PM
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30. Thank you very much for this! Everyone, please don't miss the above post. |
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Bookmarked with my gratitude.
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Sat Oct-22-11 10:53 PM
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26. K&R to WooMe's excellent OP. n/t |
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Sat Oct-22-11 10:54 PM
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27. We knew this when we found out who the members of this Super Committee were |
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Sat Oct-22-11 10:55 PM
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28. Shocked, shocked I tell ya! |
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Sat Oct-22-11 10:55 PM
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29. Hearing wonky! Sounds like they're demanding we say NO! to this bullshit! |
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