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Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Swanson   
Friday, 08 July 2011 11:12

David Swanson"The fiscal good has to outweigh the pain," a nameless Democrat told the Washington Post regarding President Obama's latest proposal to massively cut Social Security, against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans, in order to fund a military 670% larger than the next largest in the world, keep in place tax cuts for billionaires, fail to tax corporations or estates or investments or carbon, and balance a budget that nobody gives a rat's ass about balancing when Wall Street comes asking for handouts.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Mr. President, but fuck your fiscal good.  Whose fiscal good is it?  And whose pain?  Last week the New York Times said you hoped by hacking away at Medicare to inflict some pain on your base.  That way, supposedly, the Republicans would inflict some pain on their base.  Then we'd all feel better.  Assuming we're all Wall Street banksters.  But what if we're actually, almost all of us, the people you criminals call your bases?  You, Captain Peace Prize, propose slashing Medicare and Social Security.  And, in exchange, according to the Washington Post, Eric Cantor has proposed more tax cuts for free loaders who don't work for a living.  What a deal! 

 


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