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The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression | Common Dreams
News flash for all the debt mongers, Tea Partiers and other assorted ignoramuses. You cant run a consumer-based economy when the vast majority of consumers dont have enough money to buy anything. After all, Paris Hilton can only buy so many yachts; Corporate CEOs can only purchase so many jetliners even with their special jet tax credits; and Wall Street traders can only buy so many Bugattis. But middle and working class Americans need to spend their money on food, lodging, and other necessities.
Heres the dirty little secret: Republicans want the economy to fail. They want Obama to fail, and they dont care who gets hurt in the process. They want these things, because the beast is in the bathtub and they can almost taste its demise.
The pieces are in place for the Plutocrats final victory an industry friendly Supreme Court; a Democratic Party that is either in collusion with the plutocrats, or so cowardly as to be neutered; a press that reports outlandish lies and objective facts as if they were equivalent; and a public that is dazed and confused and convinced the government is their enemy.