The Times' "Balanced Approach" Will Cost Lives

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from the Working Life blog:




The Times' "Balanced Approach" Will Cost Lives

by Jonathan Tasini
Wednesday 27 of July, 2011




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So, some of this infection has already made too many people who should know better believe in the phony debt and deficit "crisis". There has been a relentless hammering by the corporate-owned traditional media, which is framing the future as a choice of a "balanced approach" of cuts and tax hikes. For example, The New York Times today:

What the country needs to get its fiscal house in order, without stalling the fragile recovery, is increased relief-and-recovery spending in the near term, coupled with a credible plan for deficit reduction — including spending cuts and tax increases in equal measure — to be implemented as the economy recovers.

And:

But until both sides are able to put tax increases and entitlements on the table, there will be no lasting deficit reduction.

So, when I say, intentionally provocatively, that that kind of editorial will cost lives, here is what I mean:

Cutting "entitlements"--which should be called "our social responsibility programs"--would mean fewer people would get proper health care--and would die sooner (obviously, we know the insurance industry doesn't care about that).

Cutting Social Security--please, do not fill up this space with the idiotic defense of the president's "reform" of Social Security as something other than a cut--would mean some seniors would end up with less money and, then, likely less of a safety net and, then, earlier death. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15247

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1. Compared to the rush to a war crime

sentencing countless thousands of civilians to death and ruin the only thing missing from this desire to sacrifice the life, health, heritage and rights of American citizens, unrepresented in their own government, only lacks the outright cheering that former Reichish festival inspired among the elites, their toadies and media. The sam has a different emotional tone. Mad ghibberish mostly to confuse the discussion and cloud the scam, nervousness that your victims actually live close by and have something of a vote and a voice.

Fear of debt. Fear of terrorists. None of that exists for the millions of real victims of public profiteering and privatization of the commons that the truly repulsively corrupt are permitted to rant on about into their owned microphones. The frustration of having to deal with any walking dead brains who do not know what they are actually doing because they must believe their own drivel to turn the buck will mean discussion must come to an end once the scam comes to its scripted sellout climax.

Sad, because there is so much self-deception, personal cowardice, surrender and outright insanity in this ironclad script that it would fall apart on its own if not for the bankster's stern displeasure at their backs.