Hi. Are you middle class? Well, then fuck you.

Unless something new emerges, I see nothing, nothing in this deal that benefits the middle class, the poor, the average american, or the future of our country.

Absolutely nothing.

The conversation is now firmly in the hands of the "goverment bad, spend less" crowd and now no serious policy makers are doing what they should be doing, which is crying out everyday, as loud as they can, that someone making 20 million a year is taxed at a much lower rate then someone making 20 thousand a year. And that that shit is stupid and wrong.

To close the 1.8 trillion gap we will cut funding to:

-Education
-Healthcare
-Infrastructure(bye bye bridges, and jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs)
-Environmental protection
-Food Safety Prevention
-Disease and Hazmat funding
-FEMA!
-did I mention Education?
-And maybe a smidge of defense spending.

-We will still subsidize oil companies. (for the ignorant, that means WE pay THEM)
-Corporations will still, for the most part, pay effectively nothing in taxes.
-The highest income bracket in this country will remain at their comedically low tax rate
-There will be no noticeable improvement for the bottom 95% of the country.

And I'm supposed to believe this is some form of compromise.

1.8 trillion dollars in deficit reduction, and not one single penny in new taxes, is what the early agreement looks like. Not. One. Tax. Increase. Which means, in addition to royally fucking the middle and lower class at the expense of the wealthiest, this plan will not fix the problem it was created to fix.

Also, the people making these decisions, building these plans, and submitting them for straight votes undebated are quite probably going to be people you never voted for! Out of almost 650 elected officials on Capital Hill, these matters will be handled by 12.

Unless something new emerges(and I hope to god it will) I can't help but see this as yet another failure from the White House. I bemusedly look forward to seeing which particular pail the water carriers choose to defend him with this time.