I am sick of hearing how we have to please the Republicans!!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

There are ordinary people out of work. Small businesses are losing their livelihoods. (Democrats lost these people).

I'm sick of hearing how we have to pander and please the Republicans as if they are some sort of elite gods?

We should be supporting the workers and families. Not tax cuts for the rich.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. shhhhhh. they'll hear you. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. They had better start listening!

[Skittles]

11. LOL

riiiiiight

[midnight]

2. Freezing federal pay considered another olive branch to GOP.

Last week, likewise, the two chairs of the president's deficit commission proposed a three-year cross-agency freeze on federal pay as part of their plan to reduce government expenditures. Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY) and former White House Chief of Staff Erskin Bowles also recommended that the government eliminate 200,000 federal jobs over the next decade in addition to cutting 250,000 non-defense private contracting positions.

The utility of skimming the fat off federal payrolls, however, is contested. While the money saved presents a notable figure -- and has been cited as an important symbolic gesture towards fiscal sanity -- there is concern that it's a disincentive for talented workers to pursue government jobs. That may be offset by the fact that inflation is low, noted Rob Shapiro, a former Clinton Commerce official.

"But it's not a policy about how best to run and manage the federal government: It's a symbolic gesture to communicate that the president's on the side of those intent on cutting government -- another olive branch to independents and the GOP."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/29/federal-pay-freeze-obama_n_789141.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. I'm getting so tired of this all-out attack on workers. Government stays or else!

Damn these republicans - they are like termites

[Clio the Leo]

3. Your representatives in Congress aren't reading your post...

.... they're too busy answering mail from conservatives.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. They are probably in the sauna with them drinking champagne?

[craigmatic]

6. I agree. Fuck the rich. What did they ever do for us except help themselves to our money?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. The Tea Party is the 'lap dogs' of the rich

[classysassy]

9. Tax cuts for the rich create jobs

according to the republicans,but those jobs are not in America.

[akbacchus_BC]

10. Obama is supporting the bush tax cuts! Where is the hope and change?