Congress super committee yields no deal

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Congress super committee yields no deal
by John Wojcik, People's World, November 21 2011

For countless poor, elderly, disabled, ill, unmployed individuals and families, cuts in support programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, Social Security Disability, Food Stamps, Section-8 Housing, etc., is a matter of survival. To cut these programs to protect the wealthy and the corporations from taxes is not just class warfare, it is criminal -- sheer mass murder. I'm sorry, but I am just no longer convinced that the Democrats are any more serious about defending the defenseless vicitims of these cuts so that they can balance the budget while sparing the wealthy and the corporatations from taxes than are the Republicans

Fabianism is not Communism

The CPUSA needs to stop supporting the Democratic Party and the corporate hirelings that serve as its governmental functionsaries. There is NO difference between the Republicans and Democrats; it is a single party with two wings --right and far right, both bought and paid for by the corporations and big bourgeoisie and doing the business of the capitalists on behalf of the capitalists. Fabianism is not Communism.

Poverty is up and guess what? Corporate taxes are down

Corporate and business taxes were much higher in the 1950s and 1960s than they are today, yet the economy flourished and net worth and income of working people grew at unprecedented rates, and as a result, other than disadvantaged minorities and the chronically unemployed, far fewer people needed assistance, when LBJ undertook his "War on Poverty" in the mid-1960s, But then he engaged in a criminal war in Vietnam and attempted to have both "Guns and Butter", after which Nixon and the Reagan, and the Bushes systematically lowered taxes on the corporations and the wealthy and deregulating banks and other leading industries, all to the detriment of the people and the planet, all the while increasing the burdens on those who could least afford it. The "trickle-down" notion that lower taxes on the wealthy will grow the economy to the benefit of the workers and the impoverished is a blatant lie that is disproved by a simple comparison of the economy and tax structure today with that of the 1950s and early 1960s.