“Letter to the Editor” submitted for publication in Labor World

In fact, what is being ignored is that Obama and the Democrats currently assembled a group of 18 people, created by executive order, known as the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform or "the deficit commission," and they are meeting secretly to balance the nation's budget by cutting programs that protect people from financial devastation in a time of the highest unemployment and economic insecurity in decades, these cuts are simply "off the table."

 
We need to fight massive cuts and privatization of the programs that have lifted millions out of poverty and brought a higher quality of life to working people.

Obama works for Wall Street not the American people.