How many of these well-financed politicians are going to vote for the "Grand Bargain"?

How many of those who have been bought and paid for are going to vote for the pending let's-send-even-more-American-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free trade" agreement designated by some as the TPP?

I read that, too, yesterday. It struck me that one of the reasons the billionaires hate Earned Benefits is because it keeps Joe Sixpack invested in the government. It would be much easier for the corporations to consolidate their control if the public didn't give a shit. As it is, we're very wary of corporate lobbyists, money and muscle in Washington. Americans want a strong government to regulate business. The corporate chiefs hate that. They want to take us down a peg.

And they want to get their meat hooks on our retirement security!

Buffet, would be what I characterize as whistle blowers. That is why I dismiss some of these so called moderates, which they try to demonize people they call radical lefties. They try to mute a legitimate rational opposition. Their positions are not extreme and out of the norm at all, like many on the extreme right. The majority of the [people who voted for the President, hold the same positions as the people they call extremists on the Left. The arguments about Social Security and Medicare, are manufactured scare tactics, just like the mush room clouds and WMD scare, these same people manufactured, to get public opinion, to do something. Money is involved and the same characters have been trying to get rid of these programs, ever since they were placed into law. Not only that, people paid their hard earned money into those programs when they were started.

Things that caused the deficit, are things that were not paid for. They are right about that. Things that weren't paid for are the Wars,bailouts,Tarp and huge taxcuts for the wealthy on the notion it would trickle down to the middleclass and poor. Is Iraq paying us back with cheaper Oil? The answer is no. Has the wealthy maintained a strong economy with jobs? That answer is no. Now, they want to accuse the middleclass and poor, of creating this deficit by breaking a contract, that was agreed to Decades ago. The answer should be a resounding no! You created the Deficit, pay for it!