Update - Budget Deal Permanently Slashes Military/Federal Pensions and Unemployment

Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte says that pensions for current disabled veterans are cut in the new budget deal:

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Paul Ryan outlined the budget deal he reached with Senate Democrat Patty Murray on Fox News Sunday. 

"We’re not busting sequester caps," Ryan said on "Fox News Sunday." "In just the next two years, 70 percent of the sequester is intact. Ninety-two percent of the sequester over the life of the sequester is intact. The Democrats came into this thing saying ‘get rid of the entire sequester.’"

“We are permanently asking federal workers to contribute more to their pensions so that the hard-working taxpayers who pay for those pensions don’t have to pay as much," he said.

"This is keeping our principle intact," Ryan added. "No tax increases, net deficit reduction, permanent spending cuts in place of the across-the-board [sequester] approach.”

When Ryan says “we are asking federal workers to contribute more to their pensions so that hard-working taxpayers who pay for those pensions don’t have to pay as much”; aren’t federal workers taxpayers too?

Obama has ticked off all the boxes on the Republican agenda.  This Obama/Ryan 2 year budget is the cruelest of all.   

 Washington's reaction to the budget deal:

Nancy Pelosi to Military:  Embrace the Suck

I can't understand what Pelosi finds so funny about millions of people without food, jobs and homes.

Jamie Dimon JP Morgan Chase:  "I sent an email to Patty Murray and Paul Ryan yesterday basically saying ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’ and may the lord bless them because the country is getting stronger every single day".

Stronger for whom?

Those are the words of Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase who has a $23 billion dollar slush fund to pay off fines and buy off prosecutors for stealing trillions from the American People in homes, jobs and savings.   Do you know that 30% of bank tellers receive food stamps?  Just another form of bailing out shareholder profits.

You’ve seen the reaction from Pelosi and Dimon, here’s the reaction from America:

 This heartbreaking call from a lady in Maryland who lost her unemployment benefits:

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Yes, while Pelosi embraces the suck and Jamie Dimon blesses Ryan and Murray, that lady in Maryland is defaulting on her rent and credit for the first time in 40 years.

And this heartbreaking call from Mike in Kentucky:

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Another caller from Arkansas asked about raising the minimum wage this is what you get:

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 Merry Christmas to America from Barack Obama, after all he is the one who promoted an austerity agenda. He's the one that put pensions, medicare and social security on the table.  

Well he's off to Hawaii for the holidays.  Merry Christmas from Jamie Dimon, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, Chuck Schumer and all the rest of the millionaires whose lives were just enriched by slashing all hopes and dreams of the American people.

By Patricia Baeten