Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Sequestration "taking a meat ax to our budget"

[William deB. Mills]

2. Sequester "Empire" and "Wall St."

Rather than the sequester meat ax, we should focus on two areas for savings: the bloated military budget designed to build empire and the legal foundations of a financial system designed to tilt the table so everything slides into the laps of the 0.1%.

The Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the public policy debate in Washington is revealed by the studied misuse of English. The words do have meaning…just not their dictionary meaning. “Balanced budgets” means budgets that fund welfare for the rich and the war machine by depriving the population of social services, if not literally stealing from your bank account. “Capitalism” means welfare for the rich rather than free competition. “Crime” refers to stuff the lower classes do in the street, including demonstrating for civil liberties.

More: http://shadowedforest1000.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/the-logic-of-governance-for-the-elite/

Even better than address savings would be thinking about long-term growth (infrastructure, education, banks for building the economy rather than gambling, etc.).