-King of the World- Speaker Boehner will appoint tea party types to the Supercommittee. -Majority Leader- Minority Leader McConnell will appoint only people who will oppose tax revenue increases. We can count on Minority Leader Pelosi to appoint only Representatives who will defend our social safety net, especially protecting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security (which btw has a $2,000,000,000,000.00 surplus).
This leaves us with the final three ?
Whom will Majority Leader Reid appoint to the Supercommittee? This will tell us everything about how serious Leader Reid is about protecting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. If he appoints "moderates" (misnomer since their position is not moderate ) like Senator Conrad or Senator Baucus or Manchin, then we will know he is not serious about defending our social safety net. And we will know that as a result of this, and this debt ceiling deal that was reached, our social safety net will be gutted.
If he appoints strong Senators who will defend Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, then we, as a country, will remain a compassionate nation that keeps its social compact. We will remain an advanced nation, less advanced than others and than we should be, but still advanced to some degree. If these programs are substantially changed, then we will cease to be the nation that we have been. It will be a different America, a reflection of the cold heart of the tea party and the Republican party as a whole. The disparity in our country is as wide as it has ever been in the history of this nation. It is widening as you read this. There are structural inequalities which perpetuate this situation. Given the structural inequalities (I would suggest an even distribution of property taxes into all public schools across the country and Medicare for all (research links health care as a great predictor of academic performance of students)), we need, at the very least, during this horrible economy, to protect our most vulnerable by defending social security, medicare, and medicaid.
It is all up to Majority Leader Reid.What kind of country will Majority Leader Reid bequeath to us ?
Who would you like to see Senator Reid appoint to the Supercommittee ?
I would like to see: Senator Boxer, Senator Sanders, Senator Rockefeller, ...
Who would you like to see Senator Reid appoint ?