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Naming the Game

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Written by C Gardner Wilson   
Friday, 04 October 2013 00:09
Yesterday, Boehner let it slip. His way out of the mire is a new "grand bargain." Yes sir, a new grand bargain will get us out of both the shutdown and the looming debt ceiling crisis. But, it will not be a new grand bargain, it will be the same old grand bargain that the citizens of the United States turned down as we clearly stated, "We do not want to cut any more of the social safety net or adopt a Chained-CPI that will undermine Social Security and other inflation protected retirement programs." We do not want to take food and rent and medical care away from the least of us, while the rich and powerful siphon those dollars into their obese wallets. We did not want it, and we still do not want it. But both the Republicans and the Democrats secretly crave it. It is the only way for them and theirs to continue with their opulent lifestyles. The new grand bargain will be made up of the same long standing Republican solutions that have been adopted by Obama in his proposed budget. The problem was that the groundswell of public opposition was too much for Congressional members to ignore. Then there was the additional problem known as the 2014 election. Whatever is to be done must be done before the start of the 2014 campaign season. Time is running out. What to do. What to do. Wait. Ours is a government that governs by crisis, so what was needed was a crisis so great that these scoundrels can whip us into an irrational fever as they jam through a cold and calculated poison pill that will slowly strangle the last remnants of FDR's New Deal. A crisis in which every politician can blame everyone else for the disaster. A crisis in which enough of them can find enough political cover for them to eschew the American people and still be reelected. A perfect crisis. And, where, oh, where did they "find" this perfect crisis? Well, yes, it is the shutdown and the debt ceiling conflagration to the rescue. It is so perfect. It is entirely a manufactured crisis. But a manufactured crisis with real consequences. The threat of a national economic collapse plus the specter of global financial meltdowns is just what the doctor ordered. Yes, they are ordering up a new America, a nation in which we must run in circles forever chasing our own tails, always fearful of those political predators circling above. Yes, they are there, always trying to scare up another opening through which they can jam their chisel and chisel away another chunk of our way of life. Yes, they are the predators, and we are their prey. And, yes, that is the name of this game.
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