Not a pretty image of a president; but there you have it. Then (in today's remarks and press conference) he goes on to recite what until now has been extreme right-wing talking points: "Medicare will run out of money and we will not be able to sustain that."
And even thought he acknowledged that at this point there are no problems with the social security trust fund, he said that it needs to be "looked at" in order to ensure its viability for the long term. This has been the veritable wet dream of the extreme Right for decades. There is a reason why tinkering with social security has been compared to touching the "third rail," as in a subway or train rail that carries enough current to electrocute anybody who dare touch it.
The extreme Right set the stage to create a crisis environment that would put the middle class enabling infrastructure in jeopardy, and then with incredible chutzpah, they manipulated a naive president into doing their bidding.
These people (the extreme neo-fascist right wing) are brilliant!
I watched the press conference very carefully, and listened to every word the president said. He does not get it. He's either naive, or a willing participant in the ruse to take down the middle class.
His priorities are backwards. He's talking about hammering out a budget deal for the long term. A deal that will put social security, medicare, and medicaid on the table (for possible cuts). In fact, he mentioned that within the first two minutes in his remarks. Unbelievable!
According to him, because he knows that the leaders on the Republican side are good men who want the best for America and do not want the United States of America to default for the first time in history, they should be able to reach an agreement based on shared sacrifice. An agreement that would include rising revenue, as well as taking a look at so-called entitlement programs.
He even said that "everybody has been affected during this recession."
He does not get it...
Well, maybe if we put it in another context: Yes, everybody has been affected. The middle class and the vulnerable sections of our populace have been fucked royally by the actions of a small cabal of parasitic neo-fascists sociopaths, represented by their bag men in Wall Street. While that parasitic criminal class has benefited by a rapid accumulation of wealth and power, as the result of their traitorous criminal acts.
History will not be kind to this president. When we needed strong leadership, we got weakness and equivocation, and "compromise." When millions of people were clamoring to have their voices heard by what they thought was "The One;" he who would finally take on lobbyists and special (corporatist) interests; What we got was a weak president. A president that walked into every negotiation having already given in. And a president who has bought into what by know should be clear is a bankrupt economic ideology.
Hell no! It's time to push back folks. This is bullshit.
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Or, in other words...
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An homage to the Chicago School of Economics, Milton Friedman, et al...
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