McConnell: We Can’t Afford To Fund Highways Unless We Cut Benefits For Seniors And The Disabled
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/mcconnell-we-cant-afford-to-fund-highways-unless-we-cut-benefits-for-seniors-and-the-disabled/Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised America that he would introduce a long-term funding bill for the Highway Trust Fund this month, but his plans to fund it leave much to be desired. McConnell’s bill would raise about $80 billion and fund projects for up to four years, but almost half of that would be raised on the backs of federal employees. The Majority Leader’s proposal would raise $30 billion by cutting the return investment rate on a retirement investment plan that many of our government’s employees invest in. ...
The retirement plan that would bear the brunt of the cuts is the G-Fund option in the federal Thrift Savings Program. Democrats say that if they were to allow the cuts it would have devastating effects on return investments for employees. McConnell’s proposal would cut the program’s interest rate, which is based on a four-year average, to three months. This would make the returns much lower and not as safe as they are under the current system.
Another Republican option to raise the money for a long-term bill is to eliminate the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). HAMP was established by President Obama in 2009 to help homeowners who were behind in their mortgage payments to refinance their loans by using funds from the 2008 bank bailout. The program has helped more than a million Americans stay in their homes; help that would no longer be available is the GOP has their way.
I'm getting a craving for turtle soup.
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It really is that simple. They want people who can't afford it to suffer, yet they are unwilling to give an inch. McConnell is such a fuckwit!
through our heads, these people do want to destroy the American govt and replace it with an Oligarchy
It is not a secret
Cut a few of those and we would have enough money to pave all of our driveways, too. 
(we don't have problems out here, we have "issues" 
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Seems enough people out here have adopted electric cars that gas tax revenues are taking a hit, kind of like tobacco tax revenues did when the anti-smoking movement started to take hold.
Electric car owners could pay a tax based on the mileage accrued. I would guess that Californians have to get their vehicles safety inspected like everyone else. It would not be difficult for the inspecting entity to record the mileage from one inspection to another and have the government send you a tax bill.
To some hungry tigers. 
A sort of giant, turtle-like dinosaur:
F--K YOU , McConnell and all your Right Wing l
