Naomi Klein wrote the book titled Shock Doctrine about the run up to the Iraq war. It was about how the Bush Administration used 911 to declare emergencies all over the place, and use the resulting shock to take away gigantic swaths of money and rights from the American people. I found it to be a great analysis of what went down, of how we gave away pretty much ALL of the Fourth Amendment, and parts of the First and most of the Eighth.
I see, clearly now, the same principle being applied to the debt limit "crisis." Our debt limit expires in September. That is over two months away. Yet we are told that the "markets" are "nervous" about what we will do. Will we raise the debt ceiling? Will we default on our debt? Will the Tea Party Republicans refuse to go along?
Oh, please! Spare me the drama.
If you don't know by now, please soak it in - there is NO QUESTION that the debt ceiling will be raised. None. Wall Street CEOs and the Chamber of Commerce (a co-owner of the Republican Party) have already made it clear that their servants in government will NOT fuck with the debt limit. Period.
No, no, no...this crap started in February, and I saw it as another example of Tea Party muscle-flexing - a way for them to let John "Boner" know who now runs shit in the elephant party. I was curious to watch it drag on and on, and listened as pundits on both sides expressed outrage at how politicians could flirt with economic Armageddon like this. And, I was flabbergasted that the Democrats, once again, were laying down their arms and waving the white flag when they had a winner of an issue. Then I realized...
...it is all BULLSHIT!
One million percent, grade A, fertilizer quality bullshit. Neither of these fucking parties, not even the Tea Party faction (with a couple of exceptions) is going to fuck with the full "faith and credit" of the United States. No, no...this debt crisis is just like the Social Security crisis...it is another way to take money and needed services from you, and give it to the top 2%.
This so-called emergency has already taken a Democratic Party-promised TWO TRILLION dollars from you. Even though there is new talk about invoking the debt part of the 14th Amendment, there is no talk about taking back the two trillion. That is money taken from you so that the ultra-wealthy don't have to lose a nickel in increased taxes. This is a two trillion dollar transfer of wealth from the bottom 98% to the top 2%. And all from this one fake emergency.
There was an orgy of unnecessary war and tax-cut largesse, and the bill is coming due. The owners of two political parties, and of the Supreme Court don't want to pay this bill. They have instructed their government to take the money from you. And, so we don't vote everyone out of office for this grievous harm they are doing, they have invented emergencies.
The social security emergency? Fully funded through 2037. They just don't want to pay the bonds that are in the fund. The debt limit? passed multiple times during Bush's tenure by largely the same politicians. It is uncontroversial and standard procedure. But it now gets the "crisis" label to distract and panic us, and allow us to be robbed.
Fuck no! Write your rep and tell them that you know it's bullshit, and not to take a dime from you, not until the rich give a dollar. Make it clear that this is the only issue you will vote on in 2012, whether or not they used the phony debt crisis to screw you. Find that primary opponent today.
And remember - there is no debt ceiling crisis!
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