To reduce the national debt, Republicans say that "Everything is On the Table." Everything. Absolutely everything. The most sacred, cherished programs to Americans - Social Security, Medicare - they are on the table. Not only on the table, but they're the centerpiece surrounded by doilies and a candelabra. Cutting government pensions for teachers, nurses, janitors, bus drivers, park rangers, that's on the table. too. Remember, Everything is On the Table. Funding for NPR, Public Broadcasting, Planned Parenthood, social issues that touch all Americans, cutting them is on the table. Because Everything - Everything is On the Table.
"Everything is on the table," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told ABC's This Week last November.
To cut the national debt, Republicans insist that Everything…truly Everything…is On the Table.
"We have to live within our means," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said on Fox News last December. "It means all of us will sacrifice."
Sacrifice. All of us. Every American. We ALL have to sacrifice. And that's why Everything is On the Table.
Everything.
Absolutely everything.
Except raising taxes for the wealthy.
http://open.salon.com/blog/robert_elisberg/2011/06/15/what_cutting_the_debt_is_really_about
