Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnaught View Post
See, I think this part of what you're posting is where you have seriously misread things.

And from Peggy Noonan, who in her own weird way has read the situation well:



People don't care about your class warefare, Being. They care about having a government that can come up with something more constructive and bold than "tax the rich (and tax everyone else more too, but let's bury that deeper in the tax code)".
US government is not going to adopt austerity just because of a federal deficit, no matter how large. It's had ample opportunities to do so. I agree that our voting public in aggregate simply doesn't give a shit about classist positions *and more power to them for it* but Noonan is grasping at straws. "Starving the budget" simply does not work here. Now maybe if we persist with trying to do so long enough we can force a collapse, drive the world away from the dollar, and ensure no one will take our IOUs, leaving Congress with no choice but to cut spending, but that's probably a more harmful way to finally reach managable government finances than raising taxes.