Debt Ceiling Part Deux

I got more responses to that last post than any four other posts combined. It taught me two things. One, for the last 30 years you have found me to be an amusing eccentric. Two, that somehow that last post tipped me over into conspiracy nut status. One I can live with; amusing eccentric does not play well with the ladies, the HR department, or most social organizations, but it has it's perks and I'm comfortable skipping the Friday night Hoo Ha to watch the Perceid meteor shower alone.

It happens every August, how many times have you seen it?

  I resent number two though. While I understand that conspiracies happen I find that most of the mayhem in this world is done right in front of our eyes without so much as a Jedi mind trick to explain why we missed it. If you have a massive debt, which we do, and you don't have the money to pay that debt, which is bad, you have to extend your credit limit or you default. Defaulting is only an option if you don't ever want to borrow money again, or you want to borrow money at a much higher interest rate, or you want the WTO and the World bank to mess with your internal affairs, or you want to tell large nuclear armed China to screw. Nobody with a brain wants to tell China to screw.

The republican party just played a game of chicken with our economy. They did it in full view of everyone. They did it knowing full well what would happen if no-one blinked. They did it on purpose. They did it for a free market ideology that has never existed in the real world. They did it to destroy the president and the democratic party.  Their ultimate goal is to unleash and deregulate business while ending the New Deal. Their ultimate goal is to create... I was going to say a subservient, work or die, labor force but that is not true. Capital knows no geographical boundaries while labor is yoked to family, friends, debt, children, culture... lots of things. Even if you could go to where the jobs are, to where the subservient, work or die, jobs are, you'll just be competing with the folks that are already there. So I guess we'll just stick with that deregulate , destroy the New Deal thing as their ultimate goal.

Damn it Fat Boy! More conspiracy nonsense. Not true. There are literally hundreds, nay thousands, of white papers written by the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, The Project for a New American Century ( the folks that decided invading Iraqi was a good idea), The American Enterprise Institute, The Center for Security Policy and dozens of others that make no bones about how horrible the New Deal was, about how Medicare and Social Security are evil, about how the welfare state is destroying America. (Welfare, you could pay out all of it with the money the pentagon misplaces) Again, these groups are very open about what they believe if you just take the time to follow them.

You work more hours for less money than your parents did yet the meme even among the main stream media is that Americans are lazy and don't want to work. Your productivity is 20 times that of a similar Chinese or Indian worker yet they have your job and it's not coming back. You have a 401K instead of a pension. You know, you Know! that you're going to get less Social Security than you were promised. Verizion workers just went on strike because a company that just made excellent profits wants to cut their wages and benefits. The government has bailed out the free market airlines, the free market banks, the free market auto industry, the free market SNL's, the free market railroads, free market Lockheed, but not you. Welfare cheating is only bad if you try to scam an extra winter coat for your kids.

I may be an amusing eccentric but I do my homework and I'm not a conspiracy nut. If tweaking your perception of the world is a bad thing then I was born to be bad, sorry. The forces aligned against American workers are very real, very active, and very well funded. Patient, I forgot to mention patient, and relentless, I forgot to mention relentless. That's what evil does, it gets to work exactly 10 minutes after Happily Ever After and it stays on point until it wins. If we are going to stand a chance we have to take a step up on our own and get real information, not just what the media spoon-feeds us, which we will use to make real change, not Obama movie of the week change.



I miss my Sunday morning gospel hour. So here you go