Dems On "Super Committee" Offer Draconian Cuts

If there was any doubt as to whether the Occupy Wall Street movement is needed, then the chart above should remove any doubt. It shows a comparison of the Democratic "super committee" members plan to cut the budget with the plans of the Bowles-Simpson Committee and the Gang of Six (both of which made cuts of Medicare, Social Security, and other social programs that would hurt most Americans). Amazingly, the plan offered by the committee Democrats is even more Draconian.

Fortunately the plan was rejected by the Republican (because taxes were raised on the rich by an insignificant amount), but it clearly shows that the Democrats are not much more interested in helping ordinary Americans than the Republicans are. Neither party wants to make the needed cuts to the military budget. Neither party is truly interested in having the rich and the corporations pay their fair share of taxes. And neither party is interested in helping the Americans who are hurting because of the continuing jobless recession.

Occupy Wall Street is needed because the politicians won't make the changes they were sent to Washington to make. They and their rich buddies are making too much money by leaving things just as they are (since most of the politicians in Congress are members of the 1% themselves).