Telling it like it is

Ending unemployment benefits for many millions of out of work Americans while there are no jobs to be had is not just mean, it's colossally stupid. It's a hell of a kick in the head for an already battered and beaten economy, and it will trigger desperation for many, crimes and suicides and freezing to death for some.

Blocking the expiration of the rather aggressively bonkers and budget-busting shrub-era tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, and instead extending those tax cuts into perpetuity, is another colossal stupidity. Worries about the deficit are a bit overwrought, but math is math.

It's absolutely impossible to ever make the numbers add up so long as the rich are given an almost free ride, in economic rickshaws pulled by the poor and middle classes.