Comment over at NYT. "Grover Norquist and other anti-tax conservatives who want to drown government in the bathtub must be proud of today’s GOP. There is one problem though for the anti-tax crowd. The GOP only wants to shrink government for ordinary citizens, not for the military-security-industrial complex, medical-insurance-industrial complex, big oil, big banks, big agra, and other beneficiaries of corporate welfare. The fiscal cliff, sequestration, and the GOP’s refusal to raise the debt ceiling – to pay for spending commitments that Congress has already made – are manufactured crises. This is what Naomi Klein wrote about in “The Shock Doctrine,” where the elites and political class exploit a crisis or manufacture one to exploit it."
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:10:03 +0000