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In reply to the discussion: So the Sequester is just another SCAM too? [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)the sequester was what the capitalist class wanted all along. They wanted austerity and they got it in the form of the sequester. AND they were able to call it something other THAN austerity since austerity has gotten such a deserved bad rap.
Now to get it passed they had to cut both domestically and the DOD equally, so they didn't get everything they wanted, at least not in the proportions they wanted, but they got austerity nonetheless. I figured that they planned on changing the proportions before the cuts to the capitalist enforcers bit too deep and put it ALL on the working class and poor. This war is probably part of the plan to restore the cuts to the military. Like I said, they got what they wanted which was a cut in government spending. It probably WAS a conspiracy in that it was laid out beforehand as a plan of attack, but I just call it capitalism.
I researched this and wrote an article about it for Workers Power. I think my analysis is pretty good on it.