Obama, how DARE you cave on tax cuts for the rich & then raid Social Security to pay for them

[woo me with science]

140. What utter delusion and spin. Of course he has.

We have ALREADY been sold out to austerity.

By validating, participating in, and agreeing to the Shock Doctrine SCAM of the debt ceiling negotiations last spring, the President already ensured that we will be subjected to sweeping, painful austerity cuts. We are merely waiting to see which version we get. He USED Medicare and Social Security as hostages to ENSURE an austerity deal.

The corporatists set this up so that even in the best case scenario, going over the cliff, we will suffer broad, vicious, triggered cuts across the board that will slow this economy even further and hit the poorest hardest. We know from hundreds of economists and from Europe that austerity is a corporate theft and SCAM by the one percent...harmful to economies and deadly to human beings. But we will get some version of it no matter what, by design.

We win NOTHING here, even if we go over the cliff. Consistent with the predictable Third Way game, we are being propagandized to be grateful if we end up with the lesser of the evils...the LESS painful and damaging of the horrible options that have been carefully set up.

Of course we have been harmed already. It is brazen spin to call this despicable corporatist manipulation a win in any way.