Friday, April 8, 2011

The pathetic shutdown charade

The pathetic shutdown charade

As the political and media hacks of the alleged two-party system use every means at their disposal to exaggerate the terrifying prospect of a government shutdown, Americans who are the target of this psychological warfare should focus on the fact that the supposedly titanic battle between the Democrats and the Republicans is much ado about almost nothing. Against the backdrop of the real enormity of the public sector's spending addiction, the theatrical pretense of cost cutting from either party reveals itself to be a pathetic charade. As the shutdown looms, the leaders of the GOP (the party that poses as the champion of fiscal discipline and responsibility) dutifully invoke the prospects of electoral disaster and the governing imperative of compromise. They do so in an effort to quell members of their own party's congressional delegation who firmly insist on being true to the promises they made to their constituents.

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