Reply #30: the stimulus (in the form it took) was a bust, the inflation it created actually made things worse [View All]

[stockholmer]

And if you think that a 240 billion CUT directly from the chief funding source of SS (ie the payroll tax) is not a direct assault on the programme itself, then I really do not know what to tell you.

I am sorry if my tone came off a bit harsh, btw, no ill will intended towards you whatsoever. I just think that as long as the Democrats (who 'in theory' espouse so so much more of what I believe in in terms of core values than the Republicans) cannot come to grips with reality and try all-ot to do the only 2 things that will save the country, then I have no choice but to call the whole US federal system a sham.

Those 2 things are simply stated:

1. End the goddamn murderous, financially ruinous, bloody empiric war machine and its global butchery.
2. Crush once and for all (not 'reform it' or some other such bollocks) the international banking cartel's (and yes, that includes the US Federal Reserve, IMF, World Bank, and the big Evil in the room, the BIS) death grip on the entire systemic base of the nation at all meta-levels.

If the Democrats at least start this awesome and insanely hard process path, then they have my, and most of the rest of the world's ever-lasting gratitude and respect. Until then, the vast majority of them are nothing but platitude-spouting rented out corporatist shills.