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Bipartisan Debt Deal Betrayal - by Stephen Lendman
Seven previous articles explained the following:
(1) Bipartisan lying manipulated popular sentiment to believe what political Washington won't tolerate - defaulting or not raising the debt ceiling. In fact, it's been done routinely 74 times since 1962, including 10 times in the last decade. Moreover, whatever may unfold ahead, default won't happen now, and top officials know it.
In addition as Ellen Brown explains in her latest article headlined, "Bipartisan 'Russian Roulette' and America's Federal Debt: The Debt Ceiling Is Unconstitutional," authority under the 14th Amendment's Section 4 mandates paying public debt obligations.
Despite a nonsensical 1917 law imposing a debt limit, the 14th Amendment says "the validity of the public debt of the United States....shall not be questioned." As a result, "(w)here statute and the Constitution collide, the Constitution prevails." It's constitutionally mandated, "not a matter of negotiation."
Moreover, "(t)he debt crisis was created, not by a social safety net bought and paid for by," payroll tax deduction insurance premiums, contractually obligating Washington to pay benefits as mandated.
"The debt ceiling crisis" also was manufactured, "engineered to extort concessions that will lock the middle class in debt peonage for decades to come."
Indeed that and much more as previous articles explained, recapped briefly below.
(2) Weeks, perhaps months ago, the fix was in to destroy America's social contract incrementally with multiple cuts over a number of years. Principally, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and publicly funded pensions are targeted for total elimination.
Then, or perhaps coincidentally, everything else, ending all social benefits, returning America to 19th harshness. Republicans have long sought eliminating all New Deal and Great Society programs. Obama-led Democrats agree.
(3) Obama, America's first Black president, was chosen for this purpose, doing what no Republican would dare. It was classic reverse Nixon goes to China. No Democrat would have tried when no diplomatic relations existed.
Obama is rock-hard conservative, a pro-war, pro-corporate, anti-human/civil rights ideologue neocon, pretending to be populist. His legacy's now written, exposing him as the president who reversed a century of social progress.
Write it down, remember it, and get mad enough to resist. The alternative's too harsh to accept. Moreover, it violates the Constitution's "general welfare" clause - Article I, Section 8, stating:
"The Congress shall have power to....provide for (the) general welfare of the United States," meaning all citizens, not just the privileged few.
In addition, the Preamble's opening words are "We the People," everyone, even though political Washington violated constitutional provisions from inception, including who benefits and who doesn't.
On Sunday, the tradition was upheld. Phase I's now done. Expect further cuts through 2012, then more major ones if voters foolishly reelect Obama or a Republican in 2012, or any member of America's duopoly ever.
