It is painfully clear, members of the U.S. Congress—especially the Republicans and the so-called Blue Dog Democrats who mimic them—and the Obama administration have no fear of the American electorate.
Despite overwhelming evidence that people want Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security left alone and for corporations and the top two percent of the income scale to pay for the deficit reduction, these Beltway Bunglers—who got us in this mess because of 30 years of failed supply-side economics and unnecessary wars—insist on doing what their big-money donors want them to do. This country is not broke. That is the Big Lie that rings in the ears of ignorant people and is repeatedly transmitted over the airways and in the journals of the corporate-dominated mainstream media.
As a nation we are paying, proportionately, the lowest amount of taxes since the days leading to the 1929 Wall Street crash that caused the Great Depression.
This is the richest country on Earth, and our problem is we are not paying for the services we want because our leaders are handing trillions of dollars over to fat cats. There is no spending problem. There is a revenue problem.
Yet the current fabricated debt ceiling debate has Obama offering to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and the Republicans and Blue Dogs clamoring that no taxes be raised on the rich.
If this continues much longer, Americans are going to awaken out of their reality TV comas and hit the streets in numbers that even our morally challenged politicians can’t deny.
Van Jones, former Obama environmental adviser, is organizing an Oct. 2 March on Washington called “Rebuild the Dream” to emphasize that the majority of Americans are sick of this false premise about the country being broke and want the government to invest in its citizens and its economic and physical infrastructure.
Recent Pew surveys and Kaiser polls show that 78 percent of Americans want Medicare to stay, as it is, 69 percent want Medicaid untouched and 60 percent want the status quo for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Even 72 percent of the so-called fiscally conservative Tea Party wants no cuts to Medicare.
Wake up, Washington, or you will surely be awakened in the rudest of ways.
(Reprinted from the Philadelphia Tribune.)
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