Republican intellectuals view the Social Security system as a "great beast" that must be destroyed, and they are using a two-pronged attack to destroy it. The first prong is to shock and awe the treasury with crippling tax-cuts (that primarily benefit the rich), and the second is to use the predictable financial "crisis" to cut the hell out of FDR's legacy.
When these same types of compassionless avarice-masturbators last ran America our banks failed, poverty was epidemic, investors were jumping out of windows, and hope was untrustworthy. If FDR hadn't come along and freed the self-destructive servants of money from their own desires where would America be today? Would it have become the land of opportunity?
Doesn't "ownership society" imply that America is for sale?
Who will be the "owners" and who will be the "owned"?
Paul Krugman has lain out the ends and means of the Republicans in this article. He is much more rational than I am (especially today) and qualified for more than ranting (especially today):
Spearing the Beast
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