Once again Paul Craig Roberts hits the nail on the head with this piece.
He doesn't mince words here:
What all this leads to is an assault on “entitlements”, which means Social Security and Medicare. The elites have programmed, through their control of the media, a large part of the population, especially those who think of themselves as conservatives, to conflate “entitlements” with welfare. America is going to hell not because of foreign wars that serve no American purpose, but because people, who have paid 15% of their payroll all their lives for old age pensions and medical care, want “handouts” in their retirement years. Why do these selfish people think that working Americans should be forced through payroll taxes to pay for the pensions and medical care of the retirees? Why didn’t the retirees consume less and prepare for their own retirement?
The elite’s line, and that of their hired spokespersons in “think tanks” and universities, is that America is in trouble because of its retirees.
Too many Americans have been brainwashed to believe that America is in trouble because of its poor and its retirees. America is not in trouble because it coerces a dwindling number of taxpayers to support the military/security complex’s enormous profits, American puppet governments abroad, and Israel.
This brainwashing has been spectacularly successful. People still devour the shit from Fox "News" and the right-wing think tanks.
As Roberts says in the last line, no country is in need of revolution worse than the United States. I am just afraid the people in Wisconsin and other states will simply capitulate when in fact they should not ever until the powers-that-be are gone from the scene.
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