Rich lying twits continue their programme to screw everyone else

President Barack Obama’s debt commission started grappling with how to reduce the U.S. government’s red ink in the first of a series of meetings aimed at producing a plan to be sent to Congress.

The panel’s three-hour meeting yesterday produced little disagreement over the dimensions of the fiscal challenge, underscored by testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and White House Budget Director Peter Orszag on the potential for the nation’s debt eventually precipitating an economic crisis.

The challenge facing the panel is devising a plan proposing hundreds of billions in tax increases and spending cuts that can get backing from at least 14 of the 18 its members, the number needed to forward any plan to Capitol Hill, and then win support in Congress.

“This debt is like a cancer; it’s a cancer that’s going to destroy our country from within,” said Erskine Bowles, White House chief of staff under former President Bill Clinton and the panel’s co-chairman. “The problem is easy to agree on. What is really hard is the solution.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCab5yE7EhDU

I know, that's hard! (not) JUST DO IT AND LET THE REPUBLICANS LOOK BAD ARGUING FOR THE OPPOSITE!

I know, still too bad for our blue dog majority. For DECADES.

For god's sake do the right thing for once.

Two parter:

1. Tax the Rich -- especially and including the ones who've offshored their monies.

2. End the illegal and immoral wars and stop Pentagon largess, immediately.

On edit: Forgot the second part.

It will be sharp cuts to anything that helps the poor, elderly, or the disabled so they can continue keeping tax rates below 40% for the wealthy.

See Greece for the outline of the plans they will try to ram down our throats.

sounds good to me

But you will never hear any serious discussion of that.

For starters.

Theyll even have enough extra money to hand out more tax cuts too!

destroying the lives of tens of millions, how is that not 'destroying the country'?

O wait, when they say 'the country' that's not who they're talking about, just the top 10%.