One Party is holding America hostage.
One Party is trying to appease them.
One party is trying to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, no it's not the tea party; it's the money party.
Here we are on the brink of cutting programs we hold most dear Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.
Here we are on the brink of slashing Education, Health Care, Nutrition, Affordable Housing, Child Care.
We look around and see an infrastructure in tatters, an energy policy out of the ark and a world drowning in toxins.
Yet one group is not being asked to contribute one dime, one group that is hailed as job creators yet have failed to do even this. The people that the hard work and dedication of a nation made rich have walked away not only unscathed; but richer still.
We are now held hostage a debt ceiling whose very size was created by throwing our collective wealth away in tax cuts and unfunded wars, meanwhile we bailed those out we deemed to be too big to fail.
We give away our wealth in subsidies to some of the wealthiest corporations on the planet. We let them throw millions out of work in the name of profit by outsourcing, we allow them to hide the profits via off-shoring. We even applaud their success.
Here we all are watching a farce going on in DC over a debt ceiling that was never a problem before; but this time we will be sold down the river. There has been little discussion on how to create jobs across the nation; there appears to be little will to do so on either side of the aisle. The middle class has been asset stripped over the last decade and are now being asked to hand over their children's future. The poor have been totally forgotten since they have no more to give.
We appear to be avoiding every opportunity to change and creating false panic to cut every social program out there and to hell with those who will suffer.
Every Democratic Party Principle is up for compromise, well not compromise...to be given away free of charge more like.
Where is the fight back?
I wish we could recall the bloody lot of them right now this minute before the deal is done. Sign off a debt ceiling increase until the election is over, it is time for them to face the nation right now this minute; this idiocy has gone on long enough.
I keep being told which way to vote next year, by that time it will be too late the crappy deal will be done and the kidnappers will be demanding even more. Tax cuts to be made permanent and reductions in corporation tax to create even more jobs will be proposed. What else are we going to have to give up to pay for them?
Who will be left to fleece?
The Shock Doctrine in all its glory.