This is a short diary. I hope more people are beginning to understand that what Chris Hedges keeps saying is fundamentally true: that in today's political system, there is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs.
Obama's plan to cut Social Security and Medicare is a plan to cut the social welfare state. Let's not try to spin it any other way. What these programs require is expansion (SS benefits are not particularly generous for what is supposed to be the wealthiest country on the planet) and the Medicare age should be lowered, not means tested.
Anyway, this is exactly what the banker elites wants and whatever they want, Obama does his very best to deliver.