NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition

[Ray Easton]

I fat-fingered and sent an incomplete message.  Let me try again.

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> "How should he fight?   Stand up for what he is supposed to believe
> in, like the Republicans are doing."  In practical terms, how does one
> do that?

Several of us have already answered that question.  We disagree with
you about what is politically possible.

> And in the mean time, millions of people would start to go
> hungry.   Deals had to be made.

I am one of the unemployed Americans directly affected by this.  Lucky
me, I won't go hungry, but failure to extend benefits will still be an outright
financial catastrophe for me.  Nonetheless, I'd rather accept that
than live with the likely consequences of
this deal.  Not because of altruism or moral outrage, though I
certainly feel the latter, but for pragmatic, practical reasons.  If
he caves this early and this easily to the Republican's lunatic
notions of how to manage this mess we call the economy, what will
things like two years from now?

Ray