Social Security? Hell no you can't!

I'm so angry right now that the president is considering putting Social Security and Medicare on the table in order to make a "deal" with the most radicalized republicans I have ever had the misfortune to see.  We cannot afford to give up our responsibilities just to get a few crumbs from the "we-voted-four times-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-under-Bush-with-no-problems-at-all-but-if-a-Democratic president-wants-it-we-say-hell-no-you-can't!"

I've been following the tweets of Speaker Boehner and his laughable reasons behind the job crises can be summed up as follows:  Tax cuts, tax cuts, give my buddies more money!  It is quite sad that the actual facts of tax cuts to wealthy millionaires and billionaires does nothing notable to job growth.  Didn't we learn this lesson with the so called "Trickle Down" economics of the Reagan era?  It's like we all have brain damage.

The president of course is dealing with the hand dealt him.  We failed to make good budget decisions when we had the political clout of 2008.  We could have repealed the Bush tax cuts and solved the problem then.  Instead we diddled around feeling happy that we had elected a good person as president.  The president can't do everything on his own. 


The problem is that we got used to a cowboy shooting from the hip in the oval office.  As much as many of us disagreed with his policies, decisions and motivation, we did get use to seeing that six shooter twirling about.  When you keep stepping on thorns eventually your feet get calloused. 

The president actually leads like a president is supposed to.  He cajoles and influences with a manner that changes law and gives us longer security.  But sometimes I wish he used a club.