Billionaires planning town hall astroturfing to demand cuts to Social Security!

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18. What gets me is people are only focused on the debt because they've been told to....

After Republicans lied us into a war and lost their National Security reputation and lost their Deregulation argument with the crash of Wall Street they actually announced they would be using their old "cheapskate" reputation and focus on the National Debt that they had just run up by unfunded wars and a massive giveaway to Big Pharma as well as boondoggles to well connected donors for things like bridges to nowhere and rain forests in the desert. Bush didn't veto a single spending bill. The goal was to bankrupt America so they could eliminate any program designed to lift people out of the lower class into the middle class. Much less maintain the middle class.

We are expected to forget the "Republicans spending like drunken sailors" part of history and accept that they are fiscal hawks. The media obediently accepts this as a fact and the Democrats say they are even better at reducing the debt than Republicans and the whole discussion is on what to cut with Republicans claiming the Democrats are all about raising taxes and America supporting the idea of raising them on the rich.

This same nonsense took place during the Great Depression.

Paul Krugman has it right. The debt can wait.