I think it's long past time we stopped pretending that any of this has roots in sudden concern for the "deficit." Nobody involved gave a damn about the deficit when they were running it up, during the Bush years: "deficits didn't matter", we were famously told. Republican hand-wringing over the debt ceiling then was scarce indeed, during the repeated votes to raise it over and over again.
Republican insistence that the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy did not contribute to inflated deficits were and are simply ludicrous, and have always been absolutely false. SEE: Critics Still Wrong on What's Driving Deficits http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3036 And even little addle-minded children can recognize that the best single way out of deficits is to get out of the recession, which requires government intervention on behalf of the working class, not against it. There is only one common factor between actions of the various state governments and the federal government: austerity for everyone, except the rich. Regardless of any deficit, taxes on the rich must not be raised. Period. As an honest approach for reducing the deficit, it is scattered and nonsensical. As an organized effort to strip money and services from the lower classes on behalf of the wealthy, however, it remains perfectly consistent, month after month, in state after state. "Class war" may not be the term our politicians prefer to use, but as description of the actual policy it is more accurate than any other. ~Excerpted from: http://www.freeinstinct.com/2011/06/the-new-class-war-new-jersey-edition/
