If you are writing a diary about the DEFICIT DEBATE. In and amongst the following you will find the links you need. FIGHT BACK!!! Art is Rebellion! I made a cartoon.
I speak from the heart as a visitor from Planet We Are All One visiting an average citizen on Planet Greed, aka US of Screw Us, USSU.
Topics covered are
air and water pollution,
poverty,
ocean acidification,
the mortgage crisis,
flooding, and a
rebuttal to the Tea Bag Party propaganda that Freedom means everyone is free to "Pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" which, to me, is an excuse for neglecting the reality that humans are interdependent.
Please watch and share this cartoon with others. There is a need for more and creative rebuttals to the GOP Austerity propaganda.
Here's the cartoon: Planet Greed is Doomed....Unless
Below are links to many of my research diaries and others' articles that contain IMPORTANT LINKS to THE FACTS the GOP disregard in their rhetorically crafty assault on our social safety nets, our jobs, and the American way of life.
If you are writing a diary about the DEFICIT DEBATE. In and amongst the following you will find the links you need. FIGHT BACK!!!
History of Tax Rates from 1913 - 2010: Fair Tax?
Tax Cuts: End Reagan's Tax Holiday for Rich!
Bring On the Charts: Drown the Cat F'd Commission
SOCIAL SECURITY LIE: It Does NOT Affect the Deficit
Deficit Hawks, You Lie: Wealthfare vs Social Well-Being
The Nation Magazine: US Poverty: Past, Present and Future
Red States = Highest Poverty Rates, Shout It
USA Snapshots: Layoffs, Tax Rates, Poverty, and Incarceration
2002: Bush Launched Housing Crisis w/Bully Pulpit
Section 8 Housing is Big Business
Reagan administration cut aid for public housing by 80%!!!
IN SUMMARY
The deficit debate is more about stripping Social Safety Nets than anything else.
This is and has been an world wide effort. It began 80 years ago.
Social Security/Pensions Attacked Globally
Is this IMF'd Or What? Int'l Monetary Fund Losers and Winners.
And who are the players leading and financing the charge to turn the entire world in a third or fourth world status?
There names are listed in these diaries:
Board of Directors for the Peterson Institute
And the IIE European Brother, the Bruegel Board. Notice that Leszek Balcerowicz is on both Boards.
Leszak is respected for his robotic ability to administer the Shock Doctrine regardless of the pain and suffering it causes half the people.
Here's a 1990 TIME article of what the Polish people went through and what we are now experiencing:
Poland Living with Shock Therapy
And the charge to privitization and union busting is still an ongoing process
Poland hopes nearing union deal over JSW IPO
WE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and European countries are the target of THE SHOCK DOCTRINE.
We are the last vestiges of workers' rights and social safety nets.
And the Free Market is more concerned with profits than people.
And Leszek is the man chosen to lead the austerity that is causing so much suffering here and abroad. A man raised under austere communism now heads the charge for the Free Markets.
How do the GOP and conservative leaders abroad get away with their propaganda?
Greed. Individuals well situated to profit from the austerity are drivin by individual greed. And the planet is a mess.
Planet Greed is Doomed.....Unless
We counter their propaganda with the truth in strong, creative ways.
Make a cartoon.
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