Criminal US Chamber of Commerce Promises to Double Efforts to Gut SS and Medicare

[Triana]

If you thought that recent good news about the federal budget deficit would calm elite clamoring for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, the US Chamber of Commerce has other news for you. Today Bruce Josten, their executive VP for government affairs, delivered a speech and launched a new initiative around the urgent need to cut these programs.

The basic issue, as the Chamber sees it, is that the improving deficit picture and waning political interest in a grand bargain requires them to double-down on this subject.

THE REST:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/06/19/us_chamber_versus_entitlements_the_cuts_won_t_stop.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Shame on them.

I don't know what their problem is, except for contempt of the 99%, but they really have no reason to want to eliminate these vital programs.

Disgusting.

[Freddie]

2. F*cking idiots

SS recipients spend that $$ on the local merchants that belong to the C of C! Please tell me how more poverty would help the economy. I belong to a community group and often get invited to Chamber events and I refuse to have anything to do with them.

[octoberlib]

3. This is all about lowering taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Nothing more.

See http://www.fixthedebt.org/ . Same thing.

[Scuba]

4. Bingo.

[forestpath]

5. And Congress and Obama are eager to oblige the 1%.