The reality is we have been in austerity for 30 years.

The steady increase in energy began in the 70's. The cost of energy is a root cause of everything we are experiencing. And it will only get worse.

And I clearly remember Bush family friends OPEC engaging in embargo against President Carter to make him appear weak, and to inconvenience Americans to the point that they'd rebel (exactly as Enron did to install Schwarzenneger in Calfornia).

The curious thing is the near wealthy. They are clueless. The middle class gets it but are deluded by a Walmart/Target mode of thinking. And the lower class are simply living moment to moment anyway.

For those who are aware, its like watching our own suicide.

powerless to plan. Like being on a prolonged Titanic cruise. One time I read somebody's tongue in cheek post that said something to the effect "...living on a planet flying at light year speeds thru the cosmos, what could possibly go wrong?" I thought that pretty much sums it up.

Too many are smugly certain that the propaganda in their brains is pragmatic fact - that it seems hopeless.

We would need actual media outlets to counter the bullshit.

Watch Obama and Dems swoop in with the Grand Bargain, ie Austerity Lite, where SS, Medicare and/or Medicaid get cut.

Let things get bad enough that Obama's Grand Bargain even sounds good to grandma on Social Security.

Here is a frame:

Have mores; Taking more and giving less.


Here's another:

Have mores say: This country isn't big enough for everyone to have more. Not anymore.

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The Sequester is the beginning of the demilitarization of the USA. The party is over, time to work on us, not the global corporatist aims. Their fossil fuel monopoly is in its death throes. Those who back it will keep up the propaganda to incite civil war to keep themselves in power. They will lose. It won't be pretty, but it's necessary.

And the impact will be more like $145 billion because annualized that is what it is. What nobody is telling you is that the $85 billion all comes out of the FY 2013 budget that ends September 30th. Plus, much of the budget is exempt from the cuts so what is left will be taking huge cuts, especially with head count, both government employees and employees working under contract.

Remember up is down. Black is white.

the doomsday talk if just theater to give them cover. The Republicans can blame Democrats for cuts in defense and Democrats will blame the Republicans for cuts in social programs. It gives them both cover.

Maybe not the whole truth, but an important point - both parties care deeply about protecting the one percent status quo.