Are You as Tired of This "Recession" As I Am? [View all]

[MannyGoldstein]

Recession, my ass. For the 99%, it's a depression, and it's not really getting better. Maybe a little better, but come January, when the federal budget cuts negotiated during last summer's fully-fake budget crisis kick in, we go back down the slide.

Wheee....!

But for the 1%, things are mighty fine.

Last week, the Party Of The 1%, working together with the Other Party Of The 1%, passed Eric Cantor's cutely-named JOBS Act to deregulate banks and corporations some more, and Obama will sign it Thursday (with Cantor at his side! Huzzah!). Last November, the same crowd gave us a "free" trade hat trick projected to destroy hundreds of thousands of US jobs.

Now, I'm doing OK - I have a pretty good job. But we have plenty of friends and family in very shitty situations. Awful situations. And every day folks on DU write of their own desperate situations. And for what ends do we suffer this? So some zillionaire plutocrat can have a few more dollars? I'm sick of this: are you?

I'm tired of seeing working Americans getting fucked. For 30 years this garbage has been going on, for the last 4 years it's been in overdrive. It seems like our party's candidates promise all kinds of stuff when campaigning, but once in office it's all triangulation and excuses. "Nothing else we can do!", they've said for 30 years, as we move further and further to the crazy right. Eisenhower and Nixon look like Communists these days.

Today the insane SCOTUS Justices ruled that we can be stripped searched forever if we get arrested for anything, no matter how minor. Didn't know your dog needed a leash? "Bend over and spread 'em." That's what we get when our party blows off its responsibility to keep insane people out of SCOTUS. Guess what's going to happen to every Occupy protester who dares to exercise their rights this spring? Yeah, that's what I'm guessing too.

This used to be a pretty great country. Not so much, these days. Maybe I'm just having an off day, but I'm getting pretty damned tired of being continually power-scammed. And come the day after elections in November, both parties will return to their dreams of slashing Social Security benefits and raising the Medicare eligibility age.

Very, very, very tired of this bullshit. We need jobs. We need decent wages. We need futures for our children. We need a level playing field against the Economic Royalists that seek to make us their chattel.