Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles:
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the deficit-reduction duo, are trying to rekindle congressional interest in a $2.5 trillion package of spending cuts and tax increases with new details showing how it could work.
The updated plan, to be released today in Washington, includes $740 billion in increased revenue over the next decade that Republicans have deemed unacceptable and a higher eligibility age for Medicare that President Barack Obama has rejected.
The bipartisan pair are seeking to outline the elusive middle ground between the parties’ positions on deficit reduction, and continue to refine an alternative federal budget that few lawmakers have endorsed. Bowles said in an interview that they are trying to demonstrate what’s possible and absorb criticism so they can catalyze a deal.
“If Al and I take the slings and arrows, we’re fine with that,” Bowles said. “Anytime you can get people discussing new and different and hopefully better ways to get a deal done, then you’ve got a better chance of accomplishing it.”
Fuck these two amoral millionaires. Notice there’s no mention that the main rationale for austerity has now been debunked.
Please, good letter to the editor writers– please, please, please write about how B-S (Bowles-Simpson) are using bs reports by Harvard economists who only wanted to make the points their Corporate Big Money masters demand, not even do due diligence as to freakin’ proofreading. And screw intellentual rigor!
However, give that it too, about 3 fairly unlikely mistakes to come up with the conclusions they reached, i sincerely do not believe it was a “proofreading” error.
Sheesh. They had an end conclusion in mind and they manipulated their data to get that conclusion. Just as Bush/Cheney did to get their desired objective of an illegal war against Iraq. And, as always, the MCM (Mainstream CORPORATE Media) make sure the public saw and heard mostly the lying lies of the lying Neocoservative and Neolib Corporatist running dog lackeys.
Lies do quite well when truth in pushed down the memory hole.
Our MCM will not get that report out enough, will not keep it in the public eye, will never make it part of the Very Serious People in DC’s conervation.
Only those who write well can do that with LTE’s — often and on point.
Second graf typos correction and clarified wording:
However, given that it took about three unlikely mistakes to come up with conclusions they wanted to reach, I sincerely do not believe it was a “proofreading” error.