The Media Seems To BE Hiding The Fact That The GOP CREATED The Situation ----

[TheMastersNemesis]

where we are facing the political shift. This legislation that is causing this mess could not have passed without the GOP in the House voting for it in the first place. Their gamble was that what they passed is so bad that Democrats would rush to change it.

[woo me with science]

1. The "fiscal cliff" was a bipartisan fabrication.

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Republicans and corporate Democrats, including Obama, colluded on this Shock Doctrine scam last spring. They deliberately orchestrated it to use Social Security as a hostage to pass an austerity deal and to garner praise for the participants when the contrived axe of SS benefits did not fall...this time.

The important point here is that they rigged the game to ensure that the country accepted a policy that they would never have voted for...austerity for the masses...and they made sure that it was in the package no matter the outcome.

At a certain point we need to acknowledge that we have a systemic problem of corporate money, power, and influence that drives policy in Washington at the expense of the rest of us, and that problem does not exist *only* in the Republican Party anymore.

[zaj]

3. Not true...

I get the shock doctrine thought, but the facts undercut your "bipartisan" remarks. That was definitely the GOP motivation. But the Dems fought to keep the "axe of SS benefits" from falling.

That fight was not bi-partisan.

[stupidicus]

2. It's worse than that

in terms of "who built it" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/30/1174469/-The-national-debt-Republicans-built-that

This is why I say the offering of chained-cpi and these things if true http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/senate-negotiators-search-for-deal-to-avoid-the-fiscal-cliff/2012/12/30/7d546aee-521c-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_story.html?hpid=z1 is like offering Norman Bates a smaller knife to continue his dirty work with.

All of this is really nothing more than the fruition of a now bi-partisan plan Edwards talked about in 2004 with his "Two America's" stuff, which was really hatched a couple of decades before by Saint Raygun and his monied masters.

The trickling up of wealth and the socio-economic inequality will only continue under this socialist president and his cohorts in congress.