Shotten99 at Daily Kos alerts us to the fact that deficit is rapidly shrinking. Therefore making the right wing’s hysteria all the more transparently a stealth attempt to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (programs people actually need, as opposed to the trillion dollars a year the U.S. spends on military) John K. Gailbraith explains at Alternet how the “fiscal cliff” brinksmanship is part of the hustle.
It’s worth reminding the U.S. public–thank you again, Alternet and Paul Bucheit–that only 4 out of 150 countries have greater wealth inequality than we do. An issue that, unlike the shrieking of thunderous hoardes of deficit peacocks, the “mainstream” commercial media paid virtually no attention at all to until Occupy Wall Street came along.