The House-Senate compromise, however, cuts funds for extended health care coverage for the unemployed; cuts $30 billion in aid to state governments to prevent reductions in social services to the poor and out-of-work; and also cuts a special "Making Work Pay" tax holiday from $500 to $400 for an individual, and from $1,000 to $800 for a couple, for low-to-middle-income workers still hanging on to their jobs.
Is this seriously price tag for getting just three Republican votes? Now, I don't know what the whip count looks like for each chamber on the compromise bill, but based on previous votes I simply can't wrap my head around how awful it is that in order to get the bill out of conference and, ostensibly, to get Snowe, Collins and Specter to cross the aisle came at the expense of screwing many, many Americans.