Rep. Jim McDermott: Obama's Tax Deal Good For Trust Fund Babies, 'Unfair' To The Unemployed

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rep. Jim McDermott: Obama's Tax Deal Good For Trust Fund Babies, 'Unfair' To The Unemployed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/12/jim-mcdermott-tax-cut-deal-unemployment_n_795554.html



Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott (D-Wash) called President Obama's tax cut deal "unfair" on Sunday, during an appearance with fellow Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on CNN's "State of the Union," and accused the president of not being serious about helping the unemployed.

"If you just take one specific issue to show the unfairness of this, you have two groups of people in this country who do not have jobs," McDermott told host Candy Crowley: "You have trust fund babies and you have the unemployed."

Obama's tax cut deal "gives $68 billion to the trust fund babies with security, it's going to last two years. To the unemployed, he gives $56 billion," McDermott continued. "It's going to go for a year, and then it's sort of up to the Republican-controlled Congress to go into the second year."

"If he were serious about this unemployed, he would have put in two years, he would have demanded that he have two or three years of unemployment, because Bernanke is saying we're going to have high unemployment for the next five years. It's not going away. And any avoidance of that is simply not caring about the unemployed in this country."

[Lasher]

1. Delete

Mighta been a little too quick on the trigger there.

[Hannah Bell]

2. lol.

[Cal Carpenter]

3. People who can afford not to work

because of family investments/wealth.

I knew quite a few of them in college and they even used the term to describe themselves.

Divisive? Sure. There's a hell of a big difference between being unemployed by choice because you can be, and being unemployed because of forces beyond your control while struggling to keep a roof over your head. And there are a hell of a lot more people in the latter category.

But pointing out a truth with some feisty rhetoric is a hell of a lot more tolerable than a pack of lies being spoken politely imo, which is what we get from most politicians.

[Lasher]

4. OK thanks, I was thinking something else.

I self-rescued myself from ignorance with The Google.