Dick Durbin Supports Debt Commission Plan

[Still a Democrat]

"I believe that politicians on the left and the right, Democrats and Republicans, have to acknowledge the depths of crisis our nation faces," said Durbin. "When we borrow 40 cents out of every dollar we spend, whether it is in the Pentagon or for food stamps, that is unsustainable. And being indebted for generations to China, OPEC and other nations around the world will not allow us to build a fairer and just America."

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Debt-Panel-Plan-Fails-to-Pass-But-Wins-Bipartisan-Support--111286499.html

[mdmc]

1. time to support the wars too

[bullwinkle428]

2. Remind me again how you voted on the tax cuts for the wealthy extension, Dickie.

[jaxx]

3. Yeah and how he voted for the unemployment extension at the same time.

Quit with the cherry pickin.

[bbgrunt]

4. dickie is as dickie does.

[villager]

5. Why does he imagine there are politicians "on the left" here in America?

:shrug:

[ladjf]

6. Add Durbin to the list of losers. He is working against the best interest

of most Americans. nt

[Major Hogwash]

7. I recognize the amount of feces coming out of Durbin's mouth! The Catfood Commission report is kaput

Get over it Dick.

[gratuitous]

8. Won't stop 'em

The Catfood Commission, despite blowing its deadline, not following its rules, and never issuing a final report, will be used as cover for "bipartisan" deficit reduction measures. Those will land disproportionately on those who can least afford them, such as lower benefits for future social security beneficiaries and the already-passed tax increase on the lowest income Americans.

Millionaires on the hard right and center right agree: Deficit reduction can only happen if the United States decides it can't pay back all the money it plundered from the social security surplus. We've been busy shoveling all that money into the pockets of the overrich, and they aren't inclined to pay any of it back. So that just leaves the working stiffs, whose labor and payroll withholdings created the surplus in the first place.

And the wealthy get to party on for another two years! Isn't that nice for them?

[Major Hogwash]

9. The super rich only own 20% of everything. It's not like they own 80% of everything.

Yet.

[hfojvt]

10. actually the top 1% are up to 34% as of 2007

and the top 20% own 85% http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

[TheKentuckian]

12. Read it, weep, and go run tell that to anyone with ears

[jtown1123]

11. not kaput. Group of 20 senators are using it as a blue print for their

deficit reduction plan behind closed doors nonetheless http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/in-debate-over-deficit-780619.html

[hulka38]

13. Even the Dems with some skill and compassion

have come to terms with the reality that this party is completely controlled by the ruthless DLC.