from the Working Life blog:
Dumb Ass Commission IIby Jonathan Tasini
Thursday 11 of August, 2011
There are days when I would just rather be a sports reporter. Today is one of those days. Sports news repeats itself--but every day there is a new twist. Scores may be the same--but how a baseball game ended up 3-2 will always have a different make-up.
Not politics, though--or at least the idiotic obsession over the phony debt and deficit crisis. Voila! Deficit Commission Number Two. Same story, same plot--screw regular people by demanding "shared sacrifice" even though they had nothing to do with the crisis. You can't make this up.
Here is one of the dumbest stories--but, trust me, it will be repeated again and again:
The roster is nearly set, and veteran political analysts say the picks made so far show a seriousness of purpose from Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate and House, giving a glimmer of hope that there could be a breakthrough deal this year. The committee includes a balance of party leaders, ideological warriors from both poles, wheeler-dealers and a middle-America geographical ballast, a combination that could lead to a detailed deficit reduction plan instead of the automatic cuts to defense and domestic accounts that go into effect if the committee and the full Congress fail to act.
Get it? You can only be "serious" if you are willing to make a deal that embraces the foolish obsession over deficits and debt. ............(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15261 
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