Parasites and Thieves Are Running the Government

and are waging outright class warfare against the rest of us. They call this class warfare "austerity," which we are supposed to give them even more money that they can piss away like they did when they crashed the economy.

When is this shit going to end?

We know we can't trust Obama to do the right thing and reject this garbage that the country is "going broke." It can't by definition.

While our government is forcing poor people to go cold and older folks to go without health care, they’re doing absolutely nothing about the estimated $70-100 billion we lose every year to corporate tax dodging overseas, due to loopholes that have been successfully written into the tax code by corporate lobbyists. There still isn't any legislation on the table that would do something about the $32 trillion that's estimated to be stashed by the 0.001% in overseas, tax-free bank accounts. That money, by the way, is actually more than the combined national debt of both the European Union and the United States.

But by simply passing Sen. Carl Levin’s CUT (Cut Unjustified Tax) Loopholes Act, which would reap $13 billion in new tax revenue every year for a decade by simply closing some of the more egregious loopholes, these major corporations would actually have to pay above a 0% effective corporate tax rate. None of January’s budget cuts would be necessary. If you asked most Americans if they’d rather see their grandparents afford their health care or see Bank of America keep a few billion more in profits, I bet most Americans would go with grandma and grandpa.

I am reading Barlett and Steele's new book about the war against the middle class, Betrayal of the American Dream. It's an update of their previous three books that the two wrote in the early 1990s. One good thing about the book is the authors ditched the suggestion made in one of the earlier books that Social Security should be "means tested." Somebody must have pointed out to them that would basically abolish the program by making it a "welfare" program and undermine public support.