GOP Plan Is To Drain The Treasury, Run Up The Debt, Bankrupt The US/Government Entirely.

[TheMastersNemesis]

So there is no government. The whole plan is to completely bow the deficit into the stratosphere so the interest eats up everything with nothing left to govern. Remember the meme about growing the government. Anarchy works if you have all the money.

If you examine their policies and their economic agenda you can come to no other conclusion. Leaving the US destitute is really what their goal is. You cannot sustain what they want to do without impoverishing a huge part of the population.

[Iliyah]

1. Depression . . . Russia and China to the rescue!

[rurallib]

2. you are exactly right but you forgot

that they will also sell off all its assets including national parks and federal highways. What was once no or low cost will be commercial enterprises with high entrance fees etc.

I have always maintained that the reason the W admin was so gung-ho for invading Iraq was to bankrupt the US. He got a long way down the road, the Republican congresses stalled most anything Obama tried to do to reverse that.

But driving the US to bankruptcy has been an unmentioned Republican policy for this century.

Another policy is to bankrupt our citizens so they can no longer pay taxes or Medicare and SS taxes.

[malaise]

3. No the real plan is to loot and plunder federal, state and local

assets like Putin and his goons.

[kimbutgar]

4. The constitution will be nullified in the crisis and the GOP will take complete power.

Blue states will fight back but the GOP controls the miltary ( unless they mutiny ) so those of us on the coast are toast.

I think we will have a seven days in a May situation sooner rather than later.

[Ligyron]

5. It's what they always do

and they're getting better at it.

[roamer65]

6. There will be a massive dollar crisis first.

Many will see their life savings gone in a matter of days. They will try capital controls, but that will simply lock people into the devaluation irreversibly.

The military will not be unified unless one of their own leads the coup d'etat. The longer this problem festers, the closer we get to military rule.

[Willie Pep]

7. This is typical right-wing strategy.

Govern irresponsibly, cut budgets and put people in charge of departments that don't even believe in the mission statements of those departments and then when everything goes to hell say "see, government doesn't work" then proceed to make even more cuts and privatize public assets.

The sad thing is that so many Americans buy into this narrative. So many people want superb public services but want to pay next to nothing in taxes and resent actually paying public sector workers good money so that you can attract competent people to deliver those services. Republicans take advantage of this mindset and get people to blame government for all of their problems when in reality they are just sabotaging the public sector in order to sell it off to their rich friends.

[defacto7]

8. Farsighted fascists...

vs. short-sighted population. Bad combination.

[Docreed2003]

10. Exactly...excellent post.

What better way to sow disfuction in government than to place the very people into positions of power who would love nothing more than to dismantle the regulations that prohibit them from making the last bit of profit off the backs of those who can least afford it!!

Your post is spot on!

[Initech]

9. No money for us, but plenty of it for the rich fucking assholes ruining us.