"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."Grover Norquist has a picture of Lenin prominently displayed in his office. For decades, the corporate lobbyists have thought this a hilarious prank. Now, he might finally be losing his influence; but he is alive and laughing all the way to the bank. The worst that can happen to him is that he retires rich for being the chief buyer of rope for the 1% lynching of American democracy.- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Unfortunately, there are also a lot of Democrats making rope donations to the oligarchs.
the president and his advisers proposed cutting the discretionary part of the budget devoted to everything except defense and other security agencies to 1.7 percent of economic output by 2022, down from 3.1 percent last year...According to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, even going over the so-called fiscal cliff would not cut it as deeply.New for New Years Day: And now, we have the latest behind-closed-doors, under a phony deadline, sellout by Obama - breaking his simple promise to hold the line at $250k tax cuts (which translates to yet more "starving the beast"), setting us up for yet another hostage taking in two months.This is not irrelevant spending. It accounts for every government expenditure except entitlements, security and interest...Without such spending, the government becomes little more than a heavily armed pension plan with a health insurer on the side.
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