This is not just about crazy Republicans or the poor little Democrats who can't stand up to the strain. This is out and out theft. The Republicans pull farther and farther to the right so Obama can say, "See the Republicans are so mean and crazy I had to do this and I'm not as bad as them. It's not my fault. I tried." Well, that act isn't working anymore Mr. President. Let's face it, the Democrats (except for Bernie Sanders who takes no corporate money) are just as beholding to their corporate puppet masters as are the Republicans they just try to keep it on the down low.
Let's be honest here. George W. Bush could never have gotten away with this crap. I believe that's why Obama was put in the White House. The truth is the so called "free market' has blown up in their global corporate faces and instead of correcting things they've decided instead to destroy Social Security and other safety nets for the American people while continuing to dole out corporate welfare and start more illegal wars for oil.
This is not compromise. This is not leadership. This is theft.
According to Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor at Columbia University and 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, "Our economic situation is the result of 30 years of unbridled right wing free market ideology. "Unaffordable tax cuts and wars, a major recession, and soaring health-care costs - fueled in part by the commitment of George W Bush's administration to giving drug companies free rein in setting prices, even with government money at stake - quickly transformed a huge surplus into record peacetime deficits."
Stiglitz continues, "Regrettably, the financial markets and right-wing economists have gotten the problem exactly backwards: they believe that austerity produces confidence, and that confidence will produce growth. But austerity undermines growth, worsening the government's fiscal position, or at least yielding less improvement than austerity's advocates promise. On both counts, confidence is undermined, and a downward spiral is set in motion."
George Carlin explained it best. They don't want well-informed educated citizens because then we'll figure out what's going on"And now they're coming for your Social Security money so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street"They use the media to brainwash us. The game is rigged. "It's called the American dream for a reason; cause you have to be asleep to believe it."
Jill Dalton is a recovering army brat/writer/performer who has appeared in film and television as well as performing her solo plays in New York and around the country. Most recently she can be seen in and consulted for William Hurt on the HBO film, "Too Big To Fail." Her articles have been published on: Dandelion Salad, RSN, OpEdNews & Progressive Activists Voice. She can be contacted @ Email address removed
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