Politico has the story Senate jobless benefits deal reached.
The bill would be paid for by an extension of U.S. Customs fees established by the recent budget deal through 2024 and by making changes to federal pension programs over the next 10 years.
Who needs their stinkin’ Social Security or Medicare anyway? Let’s pit the unemployed against the old folk and see who wins. Either way, the rich win.
What is this baloney about paid for? Do these Senators have the foggiest idea that their government is sovereign in its own currency? As long as there is slack in the economy, there is no worry about how to pay for Social Security and Medicare (if we get a handle on big Pharma and private health insurance companies).
Why do we have to pit the unemployed against the elders, when the top 1% is holding 40% of the wealth of the country. We elders earned our benefits. What have the great bank robbers done to earn their wealth? Are they supposed to be rewarded for tanking the world economy. Are we that afraid of them?
Oh, and how do the Republican Senators think the FED payed for the $13 trillion in bank bailout money? They were shocked when Ben Bernanke told them he just typed it into the computer. What are these clowns doing making economic decisions for our country?
By clowns, I mean the Senators, Democrats and Republicans who are foolish enough to think that new spending has to be “paid for” by cuts in other programs. As for Ben Bernanke, his only clownishness was his failure to put an end to the big bankers accounting control fraud when he had the chance in the Bush Administration.
See my previous post Bill Black at TED Explains How Insiders Rob Banks and Cause Crises.
Thanks to MardyS for posting this on his Facebook page so I could get a head start in trying to beat this idea into the ground.