We have met the enemy and he is us.
- Walt Kelly, Pogo, 1970.
Polls continue to show that seniors and the 43% of workers who pay no income taxes want things to stay just the way they are. On Friday’s PBS News Hour Mark Shields was spouting the tired old class war crap about Republicans balancing the budget on the backs of people who don’t have a seat at the table – the elderly, the poor, the homeless, blah, blah, blah.
Brooks quietly responded that the people with no seat at the table are our grandchildren and it’s Medicare that’s taking money away from the poor and all those other groups and programs.
The middle class is going to pay off this debt, now or later, and the debt is growing rapidly as we argue and deny. Any moment now the cost of money is going to rise from zero. When that happens, it will mean crisis. We need leaders who will act.
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