Regular Americans Are Sick and Tired of Being Shat Upon by the White House and Capitol Hill
Sick and tired of the continuing corporate controlled governance in Washington with Capitol Hill and the White House bought and paid for.
The people thought they had voted for change with Obama but they were wrong. They're getting more of the same just in a different wrapping.
Now President Obama and some Dems on Capitol Hill want to punish struggling Americans even more by acting like the right wing, conservative GOP, seagulls swooping back to us every two, four, or six years to sh** on us with their lies, then flying back to Washington to ignore us as they work for their corporate controllers and against us.
I've written often about Obama's woodenheaded and potentially damaging deficit commission here, here, here, and here, for example.
These are not FDR Democrats by any stretch of the imagination but DINOs or Republicrats.
Dean Baker writes at Huffington Post: "...many members of Congress are doing far more damage to the country with their mindless pursuit of deficit reduction in the middle of the worst downturn in 70 years. This push for deficit reduction could do more damage to the economy and cost more jobs than 1,000 Bridges to Nowhere.
"With the unemployment rate near 10 percent and the vast amounts of idle capacity almost everywhere, we have more to fear from deflation than inflation. All measures show that inflation is very low and falling, as would be expected in an economy with so much slack.
"In spite of a situation that demands more government stimulus to boost the economy, deficit hawks in Congress are now demanding cuts in spending to reduce the size of the deficit. This effort will slow growth and throw people out of work. Therefore these deficit hawks deserve serious ridicule for doing so much harm to workers and their families."
Baker also wrote at The Guardian:
"When politicians demand that the public do something because of the dictates of financial markets, it is best to hold on to your wallet. Back in September of 2008, both President Bush and the Democratic leadership in Congress insisted that if we did not immediately hand over $700bn to the banks, the whole financial system would grind to a halt.
"The threat worked – the banks got their $700bn from Congress and much more from the Fed – with few questions asked. As a result, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and the rest are now as profitable as ever and once again paying out record bonuses to "top performers".
"....If the politicians and their accomplices in the economics profession had not overwhelmed the public with fear, we could have ensured that the bankers suffered from the crisis that they had themselves created.
"With the banks back on their feet, the Wall Street crew and their accomplices in the economics profession are again feeling their oats. They are insisting that we have to put our hopes for economic recovery on the back burner. Instead, we have to focus on deficit reduction. The reason is that we have to soothe financial markets.
"The deficit hawks are not concerned about national insolvency; they are
not worried about soaring inflation; they are worried about how to take
every last penny from ordinary workers and give it to the Wall Street
crew. That is what the Tarp was about and this is what the latest
crusade to reduce the deficit is all about. Now they want to go after
workers' social security because, as Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben
Bernanke said: "That is where the money is." The fact that workers have
paid for these benefits doesn't matter at all to the Wall Street crew."
And Dave Johnson at Our Future adds:
"No serious person denies that Reagan's 1981 tax cuts and military increases threw the country into a pattern of borrowing and borrowing that we have not escaped. When Reagan took office the national debt was $995 billion. When Reagan left office it was $2.87 trillion and climbing fast.
"No serious person denies that Bush's 2001 tax cuts and continued military increases dramatically worsened the problem. Bush's last budget year ended with a record single-year deficit of $1.4 trillion.
"As the country discusses what to do about the borrowing the elephant in the room is that everyone understands that restoring top tax rates to pre-Reagan levels and cutting the military budget in half would solve the problem completely. But we can't do that. We can't even discuss it.
"And we all know why. And we all know why. It is because the Reagan Revolution transformed the country from a democracy to a plutocracy -- a country run by and for the wealthy.
"Such sensible and simple ideas are considered off-limits. To even bring up the idea of restoring tax rates to pre-Reagan levels and cutting military spending invites terrible consequences."So, if the answer is simple, why did Obama's create this deficit commission filled Wall Street supporters intent on gutting Social Security and why are some Dems on Capitol Hill deficit hawks or caving to deficit hawks?
Because, as I've said many times before, Obama and those Dems in the Senate and House are part of the plutocracy, like the Reagan, the Bushes, and triangulating Clinton administrations, a government of, by, and for the wealthy few.
Dean Baker suggests: "if you think that people who are not Wall Street millionaires have rights too, then get out the pitchforks and send the deficit hawks and their economist accomplices running."
In addition we should include members of Congress and the president and his crew, too. If the shoe fits, and it certainly does, wear it.




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