to give us austerity.
That is how it BEGAN...to ensure that austerity and budget slashing are guaranteed as an outcome of this process. That was the purpose of the faux Kabuki Theater debt ceiling Shock Doctrine "crisis" in the first place: to set up a faux crisis and closed door meetings to create a chain of events in which massive budget slashing, or a trigger with slightly less massive budget slashing, were the only possible outcomes.
The ONLY possible outcomes.
It is the stale, familiar, old "lesser of two evils" game by corporatists who own both parties now. Corporate Democrats will ostentatiously withhold a threatened assault on some portion of Social Security or Medicare so that they can point to it and claim to be working hard for us, but the goal all along was to force austerity on America, and they have already guaranteed that.
Look again at the offers from the DEMOCRATIC side, even after we won this election. They are ABSURD. This is not representation.
We live in a corporate illusion of representative government. Look at the NUMBERS, and tell us that these offers make any sense at all from a party that supposedly won this election by a landslide and that pretends to be representing the people. And in a country where Americans overwhelmingly oppose austerity and favor protecting Social Security and Medicare.
It is a travesty. Look at the Offers.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2055232
$160 billion a year in tax cuts for the top 20%
$42 billion a year in tax cuts for the bottom 40%
clearly a plan that favors the rich
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