Does anyone else find it completely insane and disgusting that the economic debate in the richest country/largest in the world centers entirely around not whether or not we should dismantle the safety net, but that the safety net must be dismantled to prevent Economic Enemy Number One from destroying the world? Or that Washington spends its days clutching its pearls over the deficit, and not the millions of unemployed Americans, or the severely depressed housing market?
It's almost as if our elected class treats Medicare and Social Security as such irritable nuisances because their considerable personal wealth and cushy federal benefits belie their need for their existence. Perhaps they care little for the filthy, lazy, unemployed masses that struggles to keep their home or stares down at the grim prospect of never being able to sell it because they, the elected class, will never have to worry about securing employment themselves (there's always lobbying or becoming a bankster after they tire of the Beltway), and the only housing problem they know is the vexing decision of which of their many homes they should occupy on a given weekend.
There are alternatives to these policies and solutions to these problems - they have chosen to ignore those options.
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