Friday, July 29, 2011

'Toontime: The National Game of Chicken

[credit: San Diego Union-Tribune]
Speaker Boehner cannot hold his 'tea party' elves in line for a vote, so the likelihood of a default increases. Like our featured cartoonist,US Person wonders if the elites in Washington, DC are so bored with themselves that they are subjecting the country to this loser embarrassment just for the thrill. But if you consider the reality behind the curious deficit charade, you will find the central issue of economic deflation after the collapse of the real estate bubble has been hijacked by fascistic Amerika and its wealthy adherents as an opportunity to roll back the social welfare net established in the years since the New Deal. Although drastic cutbacks in social programs are hugely unpopular, the tea party parasites have performed a neat rhetorical trick: bring a centrist president along for the ride on their highway to economic depression.