Political Priorities

I thought the following quote from The Record newspaper was a good indication of where the two major parties stand on the issue of debt reduction. "...Republicans demanding large cuts in benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare while Democrats pressed for additional tax revenue as a condition for agreeing to make deep spending cuts". That still leaves me in dismay. If the GOP gives in to the tax increases will the democrats then agree to cut Social Security and Medicare? That is a proposal I would never support, knowing that the present economic crisis we face was caused originally by the fighting of wars we didn't need to fight and giving away a trillion dollars to the rich under the Bush II tax plan of 2003. Social Security did not cause the problem thus there is no reason to make Social Security pay for it.

(Source: "Democrats revamp super committee offer" by David Espo and Andrew Taylor of the AP. In The Record on 11/10/11).