Wall Street’s Misdeeds Cost Trillions, But It’s Main Street Who’s Getting Nickel-and-Dimed | Common Dreams
"And as Washington argues about whether it should spend millions to save Main Street’s resiidents trillions, both parties are reportedly open to a budget agreement that would cut $130 billion in Social Security benefits for the elderly and disabled over the next ten years (according to White House estimates). In Washington that’s an acceptable “buy-partisan” solution.
But, especially for the Republicans, it isn’t acceptable to ask the bankers who cost Americans trillions of dollars – and walked away wealthy – to spend millions to prevent another trillion-dollar crisis."
