Selfish defined: Senate also rejects a bill by Chuck Schumer that would have extended all the cuts, but not for anybody making more than $1 mil

Not one individual in congress cares about what

they are doing to our grandchildren!

Could he please explain to me why it is OK to take $300 billion

of tax cuts for those at the highest income levels, above a million,

 and not pay for it," Schumer said, "and yet we have to pay for

unemployment insurance extensions?"

Arthur Delaney
Huffington Post
12/4/10

Senate Republicans and a handful of Democrats Saturday defeated a bill to reauthorize unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and a plethora of tax provisions for the middle class not because of the bill's trillion-dollar deficit impact, but because it did not include tax cuts for the rich.

"In economic times like these, 9.8 percent unemployment, you should not raise taxes on anyone," Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told HuffPost.

Two bills were defeated. By a vote of 53-36, the Senate rejected a measure by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) that would have preserved Bush era tax cuts for lower- and middle-income taxpayers, but would have allowed cuts for people earning more than $200,000 a year to expire. Democrats Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Jim Webb (Va.), Russ Feingold (Wisc.) and Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman (Conn.) joined Republicans in voting nay. The Senate also rejected a bill by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) that would have extended all the cuts, but not for anybody making more than $1 million. Selfish & stick it to the grandkids continued