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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 07:58 PM
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CBPP ANALYSIS OF BOEHNER’S PLAN="greatest increase in poverty/hardship by ANY law in modern history"
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CBPP ANALYSIS OF JOHN BOEHNER’S PLAN | The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes that if enacted, John Boehner’s debt ceiling plan “could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.”

That sounds to me like something that would create strong incentives to not be poor and, indeed, to fully incentive richness. Consequently, we’ll have massive economic growth. Right?
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/07/25/278913/cbpp-analysis-of-john-boehners-plan/

In short, the Boehner plan would force policymakers to choose among cutting the incomes and health benefits of ordinary retirees, repealing the guts of health reform and leaving an estimated 34 million more Americans uninsured, and savaging the safety net for the poor. It would do so even as it shielded all tax breaks, including the many lucrative tax breaks for the wealthiest and most powerful individuals and corporations.

REPORT: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3548
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 08:02 PM
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divine_truine Donating Member (149 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 08:26 PM
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2. wake up america! especially if you voted 4 any of your reps/ senators who want to gut social safety
NET!...THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DECENT AMERICANS WHO VOTE 4 GOP: THE RESULT? YOU GET ASSHOLES SUCH BOENER, MCONNELL, CANTOR, MORRIS-ROGERS, KYLE, COBURN, TEABAGGERS, ETC!

Are you Americans who voted republicans going to take this debt ceiling Crap sitting down? Elders especially should be extremely angry at their republican rep or senator for the disingenuous & dishonest position on taking care of nation's housekeeping matters (as gov. Mitch Daniels r-ind has said before when he was bush's budget director in '02 in raising the debt ceiling).

I'm neither left wing nor right wing: I support the whole bird! & I am thoroughly disgusted & ashamed of how republicans are behaving since pres. Obama was elected. Shame shame shame!
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