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In reply to the discussion: Look at the Offers. Look at what was never on the table. Real change cannot happen [View all]indepat
(20,899 posts)a corporatist-fascist government imnsho in which the typical Democrat has moved right of center, far to the right of Eisenhower, and the Republicans have moved so far right, they are outside the far reaches of the right edge of the bell curve. Democrats could easily trim a trillion dollars or so from the budget over a ten-year period by ending corporate welfare and shearing a bloated MIC budget geared to maintaining global hegemony rather than just providing for our national security. But Democrats are abandoning much of the constitutional mandate to promote the general welfare so the MIC, large corporations, and the most affluent can continue slopping mightily at the public welfare trough. The sacrifice Democrats have proposed is in no way balanced, does not in any manner really address the major drivers of the $15 trillion national debt that has inured since the Gipper foisted his voodoo economics upon us.