Damn right this is a class war.

Ever since Ronald Reagan was elected President, there has been a class war in America.  Why is that?  Because in a democracy like ours, the government represents the power of the people to make their lives safer and better.  Reagan spent a good part of his eight years telling the people that our government is what is holding corporations and the wealthy back from making America richer and more powerful.  Since the 80s the right has tried to get rid of everything the government does that benefits the average American at the expense of the rich and powerful, and after 30 years they are on the verge of succeeding.  Want to see the America they are putting in place?  Look at America in the 1870s for a start.  There wasn't much of a middle class back then.  The rich made the rules, but at least the poor back then were demonstrably better off than their parents.  Today's young people are facing the prospect of never achieving a standard of living that their parents enjoyed.

Chris Bowers:

As you read this, rich and powerful people in Washington, DC are trying to determine not whether they should cut programs designed to help low and middle-income Americans, but by how much they should cut those programs. The rich and powerful people in DC are making these cuts in order to pay for tax breaks they recently gave to rich people and large corporations. Additionally, the cuts are being made at the behest of the lobby organizations and media operations owned by rich people and large corporations.

If that isn't a class war, I don't know what is.

Yeah, it's really pretty blatant by now, but don't expect anyone in Washington to acknowledge this. The rich are insulated from the suffering, and when politicians are confronted they wring their hands and whine they have no choice but to cut the programs for the poor because the rich are busy creating jobs and we mustn't discourage them.

Bowers again,

Democrats are fighting a class war in Wisconsin, and they're winning...There is [also] a class war being fought in Washington, DC right now, but it's extremely one-sided and so the outcome is obvious. By contrast, in Wisconsin the class war is being fully engaged from both sides, and the outcome there is balanced on the edge of a knife. That shouldn't come as a surprise, since there is no way to win a class war unless you fight one.

We're in a death spiral now.  The government spending cuts will further reduce demand and put government workers out of work.  This will decrease revenues while increasing government safety-net outlays, worsening the deficit, so there will be more spending cuts and more government and private sector workers will be laid off, decreasing demand, decreasing revenue and causing more government spending, worsening the deficit, etc., ect. 

Try to envision America 10 years from now with over 20% of Americans out of a job or working for minimum wage, and over a decade of almost no infrastructure spending.   When do you think the people will finally catch on that we've been screwed?  What do you think they will do?  If we are a nation worthy of surviving we will rebel, but I suspect most people will just get more religious and believe that poverty is all part of God's plan for them.

--Trakker

Comments

[Dan D. Doty]

Trakker, so far I've only seen folks on the Far Left ranting about " Class War ". And as for a rebellion for folks such as yourself, not much of a chance that ever happening.

[horsec]

Where ignorance is bliss, Department of

“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

See also, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett

PIMCO’s Bill Gross says the U.S. needs to pass debt ceiling legislation, and develop a government-directed investment bank that helps put people to work.

Who are these wild-eyed leftists, Buffett and Gross?

[Trakker]

Who are these wild-eyed leftists, Buffett and Gross?

You have to blind not to see what's going on. I heard some wealthy Republicans recently went off on Cantor for refusing to raise taxes on the wealthy.