There are two very clear messages to be taken from the elections: extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class and low income workers – families making less than $250,000 – while letting the tax cuts for everyone over $250,000 expire and no cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
The issues of tax cuts and how to work towards a balanced budget were discussed and argued over and time after time during the campaign with very distinct differences between the President and Mitt Romney on these issues. On Nov. 6th the country emphatically came down on the side of President Obama. And poll after poll, including Election Day exit polls, show that the vast majority of people, including Republicans and Independents, want the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% to expire and definitely do not want Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits cut.
But not even a month after the election the Republicans, seemingly ignorant of the election results, are clinging to their time-worn, discredited argument of not raising taxes on who they call the “job creators” and are insisting that cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits be part of any deal.
The Republicans apparently are hoping that the Democrats, eager to reach a deal before Dec. 31st and avoid the so called fiscal cliff, will give in to their demands. That must not happen! There is too much at stake for the middle class and the working poor to give into to the demands an ideologically driven political party whose singular reason for existence seems to be to protect the rich and super-rich from paying a penny more in taxes.
That is why we have created a petition to Senator Durbin, who is the Majority Whip in the Senate and a key player in the negotiations, urging him to stand up for all of us and make sure any fiscal deal reached ends the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% AND protects Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits from cuts.
Click here to sign the petition:
http://signon.org/sign/senator-durbin-protect?source=c.em.cp&r_by=161991
The petition will be delivered to the Senator’s Downtown office on December 10th.
Ron Kurowski
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Not too much when what is at stake is a critical issue of national concern. Besides, even thought the GOP kept control of the House, they lost ten or eleven seats, and more importantly lost the aggregate congressional vote throughout the country. Nationally Democratic congressional candidates received over one million more votes than did Republican congressional candidates! Obama's second term winning plurality far surpassed both Bush and Clinton's. His superior ground game is a side issue. The reason he won so big is because his message on taxes and where he wants to take the country resonated with the people. Ron Kurowski
In fact, I bet if John Boehner grabbed the microphone tomorrow and said that Republicans are agreeing to tax increases on the top 2%, everyone else gets to keep their tax rate, and they don't care about cutting anything, the Dems would still be asking for increases in debt limits and spending.
They were just told there is an Admiral for every ship and General for every occasion not to mention the Premier Trillion dollar gold plated F 35, it cannot out perform the F !6 which it is replacing. There are waste galore the Cheney family, McSlime and Graham will do their best to hump on behalf of the Mil Ind Congressional complex they are the top errand boys of the lobbyists who will fight every cut in the golden calfs. TWIT wanted a 600 ship navy to expand the empire in Asia and create more Admirals, the savings of troops coming home from Afghan can be further by closing bases in Korea and Japan they would not be needed by cutting back on the empire in Europe and Asia it would insure Obama's immortality some say more than 5 trillion of Debt reduction and more in deficit reduction but don;t bet the farm .
I just don't trust the government to do the right thing when it comes to spending, and that goes for either party. If they take in an extra trillion dollars in tax money I have no doubt they would spend an extra trillion and a half.
There must be a hell of a lot more Corp hiding out there with the US NAVY and Rapid Def giving them round the clock protection in the event they become taxpayers.