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(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.
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