Sacrifice
[W]hen the tax fight is over, one way or another, you can be sure that the people currently defending the incomes of the elite will go back to demanding cuts in Social Security and aid to the unemployed. America must make hard choices, they’ll say; we all have to be willing to make sacrifices. But when they say “we,” they mean “you.” Sacrifice is for the little people.
I was reviewing the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's website and their fancy brochure from their "Fiscal Responsibility" summit to see if there was anything there on the rich sacrificing by NOT getting a tax cut. A big nothing. But that silence won't last. Wait till after the election when they demand cuts in Social Security benefits.
Speaking for me only
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