Deficit Commission Corporate Compromise

Here's a "compromise" for you from the "bipartisan" deficit commission (as if Democrats and Republicans aren't captured by corporate power and actually represent the broad range of people's interest... oh yea, I forgot. Corporations are people too).

It would eliminate or scale back tax breaks — including the child tax credit, mortgage interest deduction and deduction claimed by employers who provide health insurance — in exchange for rate cuts on corporate and income taxes.

Can you believe it? Close a loop-hole for corporations, but "in exchange" their tax rates are cut to get them to go along. Reminds me of a Sci-Fi book I'm reading in which the "Transnats" rule. Not that different than today, except in some bankrupt countries, and on mars, there is no government of the people and the Transnats set the rules... or leave it to the whims. Yes. "Freedom."

• Contact the US Senate
• Contact the House of Representatives

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Thankful for Social Security

Thankful for the Social Security safety net that helps keep people from becoming too desperate. (And we all know that desperate people do desperate things).

THEN... there's Obama's so-called "Bipartisan" Deficit Commission, led by two people with a track record of wanting to cut Social Security, for which I'm not thankful.

Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow pokes a hole in the "we're living longer" justification for raising the retirement age. Just who are "we," people with low-paid hard-labor jobs and little or no healthcare, or people with high-paid desk jobs and good healthcare? Click Cartoon to Enlarge.


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Thankful for GLH Blog for the tip-off.

Thankful for Salon.Com for hosting Tom Tomorrow.