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| Photo from Kerry's website. |
Speaking of entitlements, Sen. Kerry, why doesn’t the supercommittee follow Rep. Giffords’ advice and cut the salaries of members of Congress?
That would likely be too hard to pass, unlike slashes to Medicare and Social Security that both Democrats and Republicans are so fond of debating these days.
Guess it makes our congressional leaders seem courageous and bipartisan to go after society’s most vulnerable.
That would likely be too hard to pass, unlike slashes to Medicare and Social Security that both Democrats and Republicans are so fond of debating these days.
Guess it makes our congressional leaders seem courageous and bipartisan to go after society’s most vulnerable.
In a post by Bryan Tau at Politico, Kerry boasts of the willingness of the Democratic members of the Supercommittee to cut “entitlements”- note how Kerry's use of this derogatory term avoids mentioning specific safety net programs that benefit seniors and other low income folks.
Tau’s post concludes:
Democrats made an unprecedented offer to cut entitlements, and Republicans refused, Kerry said.
"We are not a tax-cutting committee. We're a deficit-reduction committee," Kerry said. "Everybody out there has said to us 'Go big. Do $4 trillion.' We Democrats put a $4 trillion deal on the table and it included huge, hard, tough, horrible reductions on the sacred cows and things that we have been accused of not being willing to do. We put it out there."
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