Fixing America’s Finances - -Ronald Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, says it’s time to cut

[ShockediSay]

Source: NPR

David Stockman was there at the beginning of the Republican political comeback. The Reagan revolution. He was Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

Flash forward thirty years, and David Stockman is now devastatingly critical of current Republican moves on the US deficit.

The leading GOP deficit plan, says Stockman, quote: “appears to be an attack on the poor in order to coddle the rich.” Ouch. But wait. He’s very tough on Democrats, too. Solving our fiscal problems, he says, will take big cuts and new taxes.




Read more: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/05/19/fixing-americas-finances

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Stockman also seemed to indicate that the Bush tax cuts for the Top Two %, were something our nation could ill afford. He said Cheney's pronouncement in those days, that 'deficits don't matter' were part and parcel of the problem.

Remarkable agreement and consensus from all aspects of our political spectrum.

So where are the politicians to lead us directionwise?

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Attack the poor. Coddle the rich." - Republicon Mantra

"You smelly Americans can just STFU, sit down, and pay our taxes for us. Sneer. Smirk."

- Republicons

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. "Attack the poor, coddle the rich" seems like good policy to them -

after all the rich are those who can financially support their ambitions.

But they forget,

When the rich are betrayed, they don't storm their politicos' bastions and string them up from lampposts.

The poor have been known to do that.

[hobbit709]

5. Or they got shortened.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. David Stockman will be drummed out of the GOP by next Monday.

[Javaman]

4. The neo-con tea party nuts will brand him a leftist socialist commie fascist. nt

[ShockediSay]

6. Fascist? The NeoCons have morphed into crypto-fascists

Right Wing
Super Wealthy Funded
Corporation
Controlled
Media
Propaganda Pumping
w/ Scapegoating
&Union Busting
=Fascist Regime

crypto-fascism from Wikipedia
Crypto-fascism is a pejorative term implying a secret support for, or admiration of, fascism. The term is used to imply that an individual or group keeps this support or admiration hidden to avoid political persecution or political suicide.

The term is largely credited to Gore Vidal. In a television interview during the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Vidal described William F. Buckley, Jr. as a "crypto-Nazi", later correcting himself as meaning to say "crypto-fascist". However, the term appeared five years earlier in a German language book by cultural Marxist Theodor W. Adorno, Der getreue Korrepetitor (The Faithful Répétiteur).<1> Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 15, p. 191.
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Répétiteur - rehearsed repition < which is exactly what we get from the Right Wing Fascist Funded Propaganda Machine!