Jump

The Bush Tax cuts were and are not that big a deal for average American workers.  Obama keeps talking about $2,000 savings for workers . . . I can only assume that those such people are the ones earning close to $250,000.  For most of the rest of us, we’re talking small amounts of gains at the year’s end.  $50, $100, etc.  What the Republicans demand in return for such a small favor of keeping the Bush Tax cuts for those making under $250,000, is another of their absurdities.  I think it’s reasonable that Obama is demanding that the unemployment benefits be extended, at the very least, if nothing else.

To continue to use the Bush Tax cuts as some kind of bargaining rights is ridiculous . . . . just go “over the cliff” and let them lapse, then let’s see what the Repugs come up with in further negotiations.

At any rate, the unfunded Bush Tax cuts added (between 2001 and 2010), some $2.4 trillion to the national deficit, and two extensions thereof, adding another $600 billion.  That’s a tremendous amount of money that mainly profited those making upwards of $250,000.  And these same people who benefited so greatly, at the expense of the so-called “middle-class” (now decimated), are now calling for the cuts to the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Trust Funds, as well as cuts to our Veterans’ care, cuts to education and more.  Same like with the wars and everything else, the costs have all been borne by the now decimated “middle-class,” for the advantage of the “profiteur de tous.”