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In reply to the discussion: Look at the Offers. Look at what was never on the table. Real change cannot happen [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)24. Why do you claim a "debt reduction plan" as a victory?
Why do you start at Step 2? Why do you pretend this started now, instead of last spring, when the trap was set that would require an outcome of either austerity, or slightly less severe austerity?
Why do you never address the reality of the content of the offers we see in print from our Democratic President, over and over again? They are so skewed toward the wealthy that this process of "negotiation" should be a national joke. Look at them.
And why do you ignore the questions about what was never on the table at all, and will never be on the table? Why do you not question why our Democratic President has never, ever mentioned corporate welfare through this process? Why he chose to ensure that the national debates were about Social Security, rather than Military Spending or the growing Police State?
Why do you claim a "debt reduction plan" as a victory, in an economy which has already obliterated its middle class and which hundreds of economists have warned needs stimulus and investment rather than starvation? Why do you avoid the fact of the real outcome here: that we face triggered, across the board budget slashing in January, when what we needed was exactly the opposite?
Nothing will change until Americans look clearly at how the game is rigged from the start in every single negotiation, how the possible options are artificially narrowed from the start, and how every negotiation moves us rightward.
Every. Single. One.
Americans need to learn to think again outside the corporate narrative that has been carefully constructed for us, in which we lap up the options that are presented and express gratitude that the less painful one was implemented.
Look at the Offers. Look at how absolutely ludicrous they are. Look at what is STILL not on the table.
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Look at the Offers. Look at what was never on the table. Real change cannot happen [View all]
woo me with science
Dec 2012
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POTUS Obama stated Obama'My Policies Are So Mainstream' I'd Be A 'Moderate Republican of the 1980s"
PufPuf23
Dec 2012
#50
Your claims have been debunked many times and in many threads, so I see
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#13
You are right, of course, "until we are honest about what we are being fed here" real
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#21
You are right on and have wooed me with science and overwhelming logic. We have
indepat
Dec 2012
#68
Please point me to the official word that chained CPI is still not on the table
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#31
Austerity is the agenda item for both parties. It'll cause pain among workers but the untra wealthy
byeya
Dec 2012
#23
Yes, It Is Panicking, It Is Realizing There Will Never, Ever Be The Cuts It's Been Predicting Since
Skraxx
Dec 2012
#72
Well said. That's why we need to keep saying, "Look at the Offers."
woo me with science
Dec 2012
#14
Very important post. People in other nations have already seen how austerity kills.
woo me with science
Dec 2012
#44
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." Voltaire
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#26
Under Section 4 of the 14th Amendment the president has an independent constitutional obligation not
byeya
Dec 2012
#30
it's the product of the same good cop/bad cop, faux duopoly, janus-like condition in DC
stupidicus
Dec 2012
#53
"Too many of us have been interested in defending programs as written in 1938" BHO - 2006
woo me with science
Dec 2012
#58
"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years,
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#67
Perhaps it's not so much a lack of intelligence as it is working 2 or 3 part time jobs;
byeya
Dec 2012
#71
Why is Social Security in ALL of Obama's offers, when it ADDS NOTHING to the deficit???
grahamhgreen
Dec 2012
#77