R's & D's To Cut From Middle Class, Poor

Medicare is going to be hit, but not as hard as Ryan's plan
would hit it.  The Dem's will compromise because, they will
say, they had to make some cuts to save the most important
parts of the program (whatever that means).

Social Security is going to be hit for the same reason: the
Repubs wanted to dismantle it, so we had to make a move to
save what we could.  Retire at age 70? Sure, why not.  It's
not the best solution, but it's the only one we could get an
agreement about.

The 1%-ers will have a temporary tax increase that will be
written into law in such a way that any hack lawyer would be
able to work around it.  The result will actually be that the
vile rich will actually pay less in taxes than before.  It'll
be just like the tax law on Corporations: very stiff rates but
so many loop holes that nobody pays it.

Workers rights will continue to disintegrate because the
President never felt they were very important -- even though,
during his campaign in 2008, he said he'd walk the picket line
with workers.

Torture will be relegated to the back pages, but it will
continue.

The beat goes on.

Uncle George, wherever you are, thanks for telling truth to
power and warning us about Corporate ownership of the
government(s) and, of course, our children's increasingly
bleak future.

(Can Vermont secede?  If it can, I'd like to move there.)