On The Budget Hijacking
Re "Obama calls meeting to break debt impasse," July 6 So House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said budget talks will be "fruitless" unless the president abandons calls for any tax increases. "The American people simply won't stand for it," he said.
Which American people? Not most, because repealing Bush-era tax cuts for the uber-wealthy isn't raising taxes on average Americans, and the 2% at the top are the only segment of Americans prospering in the post-recession anyway. To suggest that their largesse is sacred while programs such as Medicare and education grants must be cut should make moderates run from the Republican Party.
G. Colby Allerton
Venice
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/07/opinion/la-le-0707-thursday-20110707
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'At today's White House meeting, "people were frank," Mr. Obama said. "We discussed the various options available. We've reconfirmed the importance of completing our work and raising the debt ceiling."
Leaders from both parties came into the meeting "in a spirit of compromise," the president continued.'
Good.
'Mr. Obama said today that leaders and staffers would work through their differences over the weekend, in preparation for another White House meeting on Sunday. That meeting, he said, will be held "with the expectation at that point the party leaders will at least know where each others' bottom lines are and will hopefully then be in a position to start engaging in the hard bargaining that's necessary to get a deal done."'
Re "Obama calls meeting to break debt impasse," July 6 So House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said budget talks will be "fruitless" unless the president abandons calls for any tax increases. "The American people simply won't stand for it," he said.
Which American people? Not most, because repealing Bush-era tax cuts for the uber-wealthy isn't raising taxes on average Americans, and the 2% at the top are the only segment of Americans prospering in the post-recession anyway. To suggest that their largesse is sacred while programs such as Medicare and education grants must be cut should make moderates run from the Republican Party.
G. Colby Allerton
Venice
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/07/opinion/la-le-0707-thursday-20110707
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'At today's White House meeting, "people were frank," Mr. Obama said. "We discussed the various options available. We've reconfirmed the importance of completing our work and raising the debt ceiling."
Leaders from both parties came into the meeting "in a spirit of compromise," the president continued.'
Good.
'Mr. Obama said today that leaders and staffers would work through their differences over the weekend, in preparation for another White House meeting on Sunday. That meeting, he said, will be held "with the expectation at that point the party leaders will at least know where each others' bottom lines are and will hopefully then be in a position to start engaging in the hard bargaining that's necessary to get a deal done."'
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