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Let's start with the reality. The corporations own our democracy, and they
own all of our bought-and-paid-for politicians. They always get their way.
They'll get their way this time.
Sure, as spectators to this coup, we will be treated to some DC kabuki theater--with the
Republicans playing the mean bullies and the Democrats playing the doe-eyed, spineless twits
who just can't seem to get it together. However, the back-room and boardroom deals
have been inked long before the politicians take center stage left and Americans lap up
every scripted line.
The corporations, the elites and the powerbrokers want us further eviscerated--and they
also want their interests protected. What happens will most certainly follow those goals.
There WILL be cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and other entitlements. My guess is that
these cuts will be "adjustments" that can be easily prettied and propagandized into slogans
such as, "This isn't really a cut. It's just a much-needed adjustment that will SAVE these
programs that will fail, fail, fail unless we do this!" Bottom line, it's a cut, and we'll see
more cuts in the future. This is just a warm up.
There will also be no MEANINGFUL raised taxes on the wealthy or on corporations. Oh, we'll get
some trickery and illusions for sure (see previous reference to kabuki theater). We still have
to be bamboozled. The corporations may lose some deductions--but wow is that a laugh-riot. Those
entitlements can be re-instated in a flash--in some other 200 page bill. One by one, they'll get
those deductions returned. And--if the corporate tax rate is lowered in this deal--what a windfall
the top .5 percent will get. A year from now, they'll have their lower tax rates PLUS all of their
deductions returned to them.
Lovely how government works in these times!
This nonsense will be packaged in a load of slogans and rhetoric. Obama will give a stern (oh so stern!)
speech about the debt and how we must cut to save the nation--and how wise and stoic compromise is, in these
trying times. We don't always get our way, remember! Maybe Obama, once again, will specifically mention the
whiny left wing of the party--and remind them, one more humiliating time, that they need to stop being
such purists and "come together for the good of this nation".
The Republicans will nash their terrible teeth and roar their terrible roars--as if to show us all
how passionate they are about saving the children from horrible, awful debt. Never mind that
Bohner voted to raise the debt ceiling 17 times in his career. The debt ceiling is nothing but
a timely device--used to justify the drowning of entitlements and the continued destruction of the
middle class. The debt ceiling is also an opportunity to continue pouring money into the Swiss
Bank accounts of the rich and into the corporate coffers. Trickle up---it's what's for dinner.
Many people understand that this is similar to what the end result will be. You don't need psychic powers
to understand DC politics, you just need to understand that our politicians are corrupt and the corporations
and the top .5 percent make the decisions.
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