I'm tired of the whining noise emanating from so called "serious people" in DC.
Two things make me madder than ever
A] All the fiscal cliff hysteria is pure theater, and fundamental nonsense.
b] Medicare and Social security have nothing to do with the current depressed recovery; no matter how hard they try to float that boat in DC.
The economic downturn occurred because:
1] The Bush Tax cuts reduced revenue.
2] The unmitigated economic bleeding of two long and unnecessary wars.
These events removed any fiscal buffer for the "housing bubble" implosion.
The result even with the minimalist stimulus package of about half of what was in fact needed.
We then had revenue decrease further due to unemployment and the unnecessary extension of the Bush tax cuts; because nobody had the courage to deal with fundamental problem to the ballooning deficit.
So the cowards [Norquist] way out is being floated by the right in DC, cut everything and it will be alright.
What complete and utter tomfuckery.
Also combining to add to the reduction in revenue is stagnating wages for the last decade for 95 to 99% of the population whilst the top 1% continue the heist.
Finally the idiocy of Norquist may be loosing traction amongst some of the slightly brighter Republicans; but it is still entrenched and causes endless frothing at the mouth, and the clutching of guns in the bunker.
The truth of the matter is that the two programs that protect the vast majority from a bankrupt and fearful old age, stimulate the economy. Imagine the national catastrophe without them. Imagine the cost of reduction in all entitlement programs and see an economic wasteland for the majority, whilst a very few skip away with the profits. All the private sector via its lobbyist have shown is that health care becomes unaffordable, bankruptcy a reality; visualize this performance across the economy. Imagine being retired and at the mercy of "big" old age and Wall St.
If you want to envisualize your old age under privatization just look at the rotten and decaying state of the infrastructure.
If you want to see medicare in the hands of Wall St, just think brown out.
The economy is not recovering as fast as it should is because a certain sector in DC doesn't give a fuck, it just wants to hand the national wealth on a platinum platter to a very few.
Austerity is a blight, but deliberate asset stripping a crime.
Now stick that in your puppet offshore account.
The real problem behind the deficit.
The bloody greed of an oh so few and their puppets in congress, add that to warmongering social dinosaurs and you have a real sodding problem with reality.
Conventional wisdom?
More like group sociopathy.