"As in
previous budget crises under the Obama administration, the events are being
stage-managed by the two corporate-controlled parties to give the illusion of
partisan gridlock and confrontation over principles—in this case, whether to go
forward with the implementation of the Obama health care program—while behind
the scenes all factions within the ruling elite agree that massive cuts must be
carried through in basic federal social programs."
"Further
spending cuts will be incorporated in the appropriations bills whenever they
are finalized. The Republican-controlled House, for instance, has proposed to
cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the next ten years. The
Democrats are proposing smaller cuts, but the program faces an automatic
reduction of about 13 percent in benefit levels when a temporary increase in
benefits under the 2009 economic stimulus legislation expires in November."
Obama, Congress
advance plans for deeper social spending cuts
By Patrick Martin
16 September 2013
16 September 2013
With the evident postponement of an immediate war against Syria,
the Obama administration and both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have
turned their attention to their main enemy at home, furthering their plans to
attack the social programs on which tens of millions of working people in the
United States depend on for their health and livelihood.
In a half-hour interview broadcast on ABC’s “This Week” program
Sunday, Obama laid out his position on the budget talks, which resumed in
earnest last week in Washington. Obama indicated willingness to make
concessions to Republican demands for further cuts in social spending,
including an extension of the so-called “sequester,” while rejecting any
negotiations over an increase in the federal debt ceiling.
There are now two budget deadlines in October. On the first day
of the month, the start of the 2014 fiscal year, the federal government will
run out of authority to spend money because Congress has not passed a single
appropriations bill. Federal agencies will begin to shut down, with consequent
furloughs and payless paydays for federal workers.
On or about October 18, according to recent estimates, the
Treasury will exhaust its ability to borrow money to finance continuing federal
payments, and will be limited to issuing checks based on incoming revenue. This
will mean unpaid federal bills, likely before the end of the month, with the
threat that Social Security checks for 50 million retired people will not go
out after November 1.
As in previous budget crises under the Obama administration, the
events are being stage-managed by the two corporate-controlled parties to give
the illusion of partisan gridlock and confrontation over principles—in this
case, whether to go forward with the implementation of the Obama health care
program—while behind the scenes all factions within the ruling elite agree that
massive cuts must be carried through in basic federal social programs.
With the cooperation of the media, a crisis atmosphere will be
created to justify further sweeping attacks on the social rights of the working
class to health care, unemployment compensation and retirement income. The end
result will be significant cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
The leader of the House Republican majority, Speaker John
Boehner, has already reached a tacit understanding with the Obama
administration and Senate Democrats over how to handle the more immediate of
the two deadlines, the beginning of the new fiscal year on October 1.
Last week, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor backed
a plan under which the House would approve a measure, called a continuing
resolution, to allow federal agencies to continue spending money through
December 15 while the appropriations bills are finalized.
In return, the Senate would agree to hold a vote on postponing
implementation of the Obama health care program for one year. After the
Democratic-controlled Senate defeated the Obamacare postponement, the spending
bill would go to the White House for Obama’s signature, without any further
action by the House.
The most right-wing faction of House Republicans forced Boehner
and Cantor to withdraw the proposed continuing resolution by vowing to vote
down any measure that did not actually ban the implementation of Obamacare. The
deal was nonetheless significant, since Senate Democrats and the White House
agreed in principle to extend implementing the drastic spending cuts imposed
under the sequester into the new fiscal year.
The total cuts under the sequester—agreed on by Obama and
congressional Republicans in 2011, and put into effect earlier this year—come
to more than $1 trillion over ten years. Particularly hard-hit have been
programs for poor children, like Head Start, and federal agencies with
unexpectedly high expenditures, such as those involved in fighting the wave of
summer forest fires.
Further spending cuts will be incorporated in the appropriations
bills whenever they are finalized. The Republican-controlled House, for
instance, has proposed to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the
next ten years. The Democrats are proposing smaller cuts, but the program faces
an automatic reduction of about 13 percent in benefit levels when a temporary
increase in benefits under the 2009 economic stimulus legislation expires in
November.
The Republican demagogy over “defunding” the Obama health care
program is a sideshow to whip up far-right elements in the Tea Party and shift
the political landscape further to the right.
There is little chance that Congress or the Obama administration
will agree to delay the health care legislation passed in 2010, which takes
effect January 1, 2014. The health care bill is not a progressive reform, but a
reactionary measure backed by Corporate America, focused on cutting costs and
boosting profits. Insurance companies and health care providers have already
invested billions to implement the bill, which they calculate will bring them a
windfall.
In an action
that demonstrates the ruthlessness of the Obama administration when it comes to
the social conditions of workers, the White House on Friday flatly rejected a
plea from the AFL-CIO to pull back on planned sanctions under the health care
legislation against union health care plans covering millions of workers, whose
benefits are considered too high—the so-called “Cadillac” plans. Benefits above
the cutoff level will be subject to federal taxes from January 1.
Meanwhile, Treasury Department figures released Thursday show
that the federal deficit, supposedly the reason for austerity measures, has
plunged to the lowest level since Obama took office, less than $700 billion in
fiscal 2013.
HOW
OBAMA PUNKED a NATION WHILE HIS WALL STREET CRONIES LOOTED IT: Obama to mark
fifth anniversary of financial crisis, highlight response - OBAMA ASSURES HIS
WALL STREET CRONIES THE BEST LOOTING IS STILL AHEAD! The Hill's Blog Briefing
Room
THE MAN THAT
CALLED HIS HOAX “CHANGE”
'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most frequently used words to
describe the president: Pew Research Center
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
The larger fear is that
Obama might be just another corporatist, punking voters much as the Republicans
do when they claim to be all for the common guy.
BORDER SECURITY LIES… grounds for impeachment?
The Obama – Rubio and LA RAZA orchestrated lies on amnesty and border security… THE PROMISE MEXICO IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!
more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-obama-and-marco-rubio-lies-about.html
OBMAMA’S LA RAZA WELFARE STATE… plus illegals get all the
jobs!
“Since President Obama came into office, SNAP
participation has increased at 10 times the rate of job creation, the annual
spending on SNAP has doubled, and one in seven Americans now participates in
SNAP,”
WEEKLY OBAMA and the DEMOCRAT PARTY EXPAND THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS AS THEY CUT JOBS AND BENEFITS TO AMERICANS (LEGALS) TO PAY FOR MEXICO'S LOOTING!
MEXICO and OBAMA DEMAND EXPANDED “FREE” PHONE
THE
BREEDERS – MEXICO INVADES, BREEDS, LOOTS and votes DEM!
Wilkes noted that “Hispanics will account for 52 percent of
our nation’s total population growth” throughout the coming four decades and
will “make up 74 percent of the growth in the nation’s labor force from now
until 2020.” The 11.3 percent unemployment rate among Latinos suggests that
“having a wireless phone can make the difference between someone receiving the
call for a job interview or missing that opportunity altogether.
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/08/obamas-hispanicazation-of-america-most.html
JUDICIAL WATCH
OBAMA’S SECRET AMNESTY! WHAT WILL IT
COST US?
E-VERIFY
The LA RAZA GANG of 8 Promise Obama, illegals, Mexico
and Employers of Illegals NO E-VERIFY…. in a time of national unemployment
crisis for Americans, the entire amnesty sham is really all about keeping wages
depressed with endless hordes of Mexicans!
What will America stand for
in 2050?
The US should think
long and hard about the high number of Latino immigrants.
The
principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent
Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard
economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion
annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market
at the low-wage end.
AMNESTY = Depressed Wages for Americans,
Poverty for Americas and Jobs and Massive Welfare for Illegals… it’s all about
keeping wages depressed!
THE TRAGEDY of LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT
In America, all jobs go to foreign born
that are either imported or permitted to jump our borders!
OBAMA’S AMERICA… soaring poverty for americans,
soaring welfare and jobs for illegals …and then pass-n-tax the looted middle
class for the real cost of all that “cheap” LA RAZA labor!
THE OBAMA – McCAIN
AMNESTY… EXPECTING 100 MILLION MORE LA RAZA LOOTERS… it’s how we will keep
wages depressed!
“But in the last year or so, there have
been signs of an increase, and now a new poll suggests many Mexicans would come
to the U.S. if they had the chance. And many of them would come illegally if
necessary.”
The OBAMA – McCAIN Amnesty Promises NO E-VERIFY enforcement
to Employers and NO BORDER enforcement to LA RAZA invaders.
…isn’t
that what we already have going ????
Dream Act proposals
are also a magnet for fraud. Many illegal immigrants will fraudulently claim
they came here as children or that they are under 30. And the federal
government has no way to check whether their claims are true or not. REP. LAMAR SMITH
"It lets businesses that knowingly violated the law
off the hook," Mr. Krikorian said. "If they were not withholding
payroll taxes, they’re held harmless. If they were violating labor laws,
they’re held harmless. So this is a boon for crooked business."… MARK
KRIKORIAN
“Another
force for amnesty is corporate America. Thousands of businesses have hired
illegals in violation of U.S. law. Amnesty for their illegal workers means, de
facto, amnesty for them”… PAT BUCHANAN
DEPRESSED WAGES or simply OBAMANOMICS???
THE ENTIRE REASON FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY HOAX IS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED WITH 40 MILLION NEW HEAVY BREEDING MEXICAN DEMS!
Despite Obama’s rhetoric about creating “decent-paying” and
“middle class” jobs, the reality is that his administration has made the
slashing of workers’ wages a deliberate goal, beginning with the 2009
restructuring of Chrysler and General Motors, in which Obama’s Auto Task Force
made the imposition of a 50 percent wage cut for new-hires the condition for
providing bailout funds to the US auto makers.
The rich keep getting richer, combined net worth of America’s top 400 rises
By Associated Press,
RICH GET RICHER: Forbes on Monday released its annual list of the top 400 richest Americans. Most of the top rankings didn’t change, but the fortunes of the majority of the elite club’s members grew, helped by strong stock and real estate markets.HIGHEST TOTAL EVER: The people on the annual list posted a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago. That marks their highest combined value ever.
STILL No. 1: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates remains America’s richest man, taking the top spot on the list for the 20th straight year with a net worth of $72 billion, up from $66 billion a year ago.
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