Lacking a real choice of parties in U.S. elections is a critical flaw in the American system of democracy, denying voters the opportunity to select a party that is not almost exclusively influenced by corporate interests, whereas in Europe there is a much broader choice where the government is frequently formed by a coalition of parties.
Cutting spending and taxes reflects all these
differences. Cutting taxes only benefits
the rich and reduces government revenues which could have been spent on the
social safety net. When cutting
spending, defense spending -- spending on war -- are completely exempted. People lose, the Pentagon wins.
Now, with the Republicans
controlling Congress, it is fairly safe to predict a perpetuation of the above
policies. The remedy for reversing the
downward descent into the abyss of third-world conditions was best expressed by
Thomas Jefferson when he warned -- "God forbid we should ever be twenty
years without such a rebellion." And, "What country can preserve its liberties, if
its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the
spirit of resistance."
It is only a
matter of time before people will have nothing to lose.
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