The People's Burden

The "deal" between The White House, the Congressional Republican leadership, and the Democratic leadership, is nothing but another pitiful example of the Democratic Party's  ineptness and incapability of defending their own principles and of being bullied by the extremism on the right that was the cause of the crisis in the first place.

This agreement, if it comes to pass, will finally after nearly a decade, begin to pay down the reckless unfunded spending and tax cuts of the concurrent years of the Bush/Cheney administration and the total Republican control of Congress, of which they have never taken any responsibility for. It will be paid down in the way republicans have always wanted, on the backs of the middle class and all others that are not at the very top of our society. Make no mistake, it is the Democrats that have yielded their principles and the most extremist element of the right sustaining and strengthening their own.

Who is now responsible to pay to for the two unfunded wars, the prescription drug debacle that simply turned over 550 billion plus dollars to the pharmaceutical industry, and the multi-trillion dollar tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans? Who do think? Why, the American middle class, unemployed and working poor, seniors, students, the poor and disabled, you get the picture, right?

The republican party at the behest of its most extremist wing, insisted on, and the Democrats, including the President, folded like a deck of cards to their demands that the debt be the sole  responsibility of the least able to cover it, the millions of Americans who are already struggling and at the breaking point.

Once again, the rich and powerful get a free ride, a pass. Those that benefited the most from the policies that sank our economy get a pass. No shared sacrifice by the wealthy; remember, they're wealthy, having them contribute to the burden is an outrageous proposition, and an offense to their being wealthy, their wealth protects them from such indignant things as being part of any shared sacrifice. My God, the outrage that must have been on display at Country Clubs across the country at such a thought. And the relief, now, that their political investments and political lackeys appear to have come through for them. The President and Congress of The United States have the backs of the most rich and powerful, and their actions indicate it is simply damn the rest.