I’m officially a card carrying Independent starting today. I think that President Obama really is suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
Why don’t people understand that rich people are the free loaders that Michele Bachmann and all the other political extremists would like to see kicked off the dole?
Bachmann told conservative host Sean Hannity:
"I think we're back in a conundrum. I think the compromise would be extending the rates for two years and not permanently, but not tying it to massive spending. We cannot add on something like a year of unemployment benefits."
They want to strip that out calling it massive spending! I try to imagine their reasoning on this: is that well, these rich people, at least they’re not free loaders. They have money. So we’ll give them more, but these poor people down here, can’t they just die or something? I mean, we can’t afford them so can’t we make a law or something against being poor?
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Why can’t they see that these billionaires are the ones sucking most furiously at the government teat? Most of us little people pay taxes. These people offshore, and play any number of shell games with their money until it all goes either in their pockets or ends up paying the wages of goons like Rush Limbaugh. They lose it by the billions down rat holes like the Washington Post which make zero return on its investment. For instance. When rich people spend that extra income they’re getting from the Obama Tax Cuts for the Rich they’ll be putting it into things like oh, subverting elections, selling us all off as slaves via elimination of minimum wage is something the billionaires are looking at, what else, lets see let me count the ways.
They re-invest their money subverting democracy in America. Getting us to believe crap like democracy is a commodity that could be exported to the world at the tip of a bayonet. And we bought that shit. And apparently we still are.
I’m guess that Obama is going to take the consolation prize and leave the presidency early and accept the somewhat lucrative parting gifts that all presidents past receive, ample speaking gigs, etc. He may even believe that he can do more as a former president than as president. We probably shouldn’t judge him too harshly, after all, the super secret spy army may have explained all this to him and when faced with the threat of assassination via the secret private army you have, well, I can understand why a loving father would convince himself that cooperation with your captors is in the best interest of having a reasonable outcome here.
Dismantling the empire will happen haphazardly at best going forward and the weakest in our society will pay the steepest price. That’s capitalism, for you. Survival of the fitest beasts in the jungle. And though it’s more like a chemically induced desert here in the Midwest, I’m sure we’ll see very little of anything but some seriously hard times ahead.
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