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The US budget deal and the political conspiracy against the working class

 
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The recent  bi-partisan budget agreement reached between congressional Democrats and Republicans, with the support of the Obama
administration,  is  a political conspiracy against the working class, aimed at slashing social programs and effecting a further redistribution of wealth to the corporate and financial elite.

The agreement, adopted DEC 2013  by the House of Representatives by an overwhelming margin of 332-94, makes permanent
over a trillion dollars in “sequester” budget cuts, increases federal employee pension contributions, establishes new consumption
fees, and makes nearly $30 billion in additional cuts in Medicare reimbursements. President Obama has already said he will sign the measure.

The regressive, anti-social character of the budget deal is most clearly expressed in the fact that it allows for the expiration of
federal unemployment benefits, ending cash assistance for the long-term unemployed after Christmas.

A total of 1.3 million people are scheduled to lose their unemployment benefits on December 28, and an additional 3.6 million
people will be cut off from income support next year. By the White House’s own estimate, two additional family members are
supported by each recipient of extended jobless aid, bringing to nearly 15 million the number of people potentially affected by
the expiration of federal jobless benefits—nearly five percent of the population.

The class character of the entire political system is starkly revealed by this cruel act. It is being carried out even as the Federal
Reserve continues to funnel $85 billion a month— more than three times the cost of extending benefits for an entire year—to
fuel a record stock market boom and soaring corporate profits. The budget deal restores military spending approximately equal
to the cost of the unemployment benefits, further feeding a military and intelligence machine that consumes close to $1 trillion
every year.

How many people will be made homeless, or forced to choose between medical care and putting food on the table, as a result
of the unemployment benefit cuts? How many will be thrown into poverty? These cuts are being implemented, despite the talk
by the Obama administration and the media of “economic recovery,” as requests for food assistance are rising and the country
remains plagued by mass unemployment.

The two big business parties posture as bitter opponents, but in reality they are united on all fundamental aspects of policy. The
basic unity of the two parties was summed up by Democratic Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray in announcing the
deal on Tuesday. She and her Republican counterpart, Paul Ryan, “cheer for a different football team,” Murray said. “We
catch different fish. We have some differences on policy, but we agree that our country needs some certainty and we need to
show that we can work together.”

Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman and Republican vice presidential candidate in 2012, has put forward budgets that
would dismantle Social Security and Medicare. He is now presented by the media as the “moderate” face of the Republican
Party.

The outcome of the budget talks was predictable. Against those who promoted the official narrative of the October government
shutdown—peddled by both the mainstream press and various fake “left” organizations—that the main characteristic of US
politics is the vast ideological chasm between the Democratic and Republican parties, the World Socialist Web Site wrote:
 “Behind the façade of partisan ‘gridlock,’ there has never been greater consensus between the two parties on substantive
matters of social policy. They completely agree on making the broad mass of the population pay for the crisis of American and
world capitalism.”

As the WSWS predicted, the government shutdown was the prelude to a further shift to the right by the Obama administration
and the Democratic Party. The aftermath of the government shutdown has brought a renewed drive to impoverish the
population.

In November, food stamp benefits were slashed nationwide for the first time in US history, eliminating the equivalent of two
days of food every month for 47.7 million people. Congress is scheduled to vote on a farm bill in the coming days that will slash
billions more from the food stamp program.

Earlier this month, a federal judge approved the Detroit bankruptcy, with the support of the White House, setting the stage for
massive cuts in Detroit city worker pensions and similar attacks on public employee pensions across the country.

This is only the latest stage in a series of measures, each aimed at furthering the transfer of wealth to the corporate and financial
elite. While both parties initially claimed they favored doing away with the automatic sequester cuts, these claims were entirely
for public consumption.

The bipartisan agreement keeps the sequester cuts in place to serve as a mechanism for slashing spending by a hundred billion
dollars per year, year after year, and bring domestic spending down to the levels that existed in the 1950s. Since 2011, US
domestic social spending has been slashed by 8.9 percent, a fact of which Obama speaks with pride.

For many years, and particularly since the financial collapse of 2008, the ruling class has been engaged in a restructuring of
class relations. On the one hand, bank bailouts and “quantitative easing,” on the other, cuts in social programs and the utilization
of mass unemployment to drive down wages and reduce living standards. Each of the manufactured budget crises since 2010
has shifted the political establishment further to the right.

More is to come. As Obama himself put it, the budget agreement is a “first step.” With the deal set, the ruling class turns its
greedy eyes to the substantial funds contained in the Medicare and Social Security programs. A persistent theme in media and
political commentary is that the budget deal creates the bipartisan framework to take on entitlement programs such as Social
Security and Medicare in the face of overwhelming popular opposition to any cuts.

In all of this, the state emerges clearly not as a neutral arbiter, but as a ruthless instrument of class rule. The fight back by the
working class requires a political and revolutionary mobilization, aimed at taking political power and instituting a program based
on the interests of the vast majority of the population.

The defense of the social rights of working people is impossible within the framework of the capitalist system. In opposition to
the two big business parties, the working class must build a mass political movement armed with a socialist program to
reorganize society on the basis of social need, not private profit." article written by Andre Damon

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MEANWHILE, THE VETERANS' ADMIN wrote my pal the ex SOLDIER, a 70 yr old VET & said there was a $1100 benefit for homeless vets.....waiting. He went to office and came out WEEPING AND SCREAMING.  He reported : I SUPPOSEDLY HAD THIS CASH GIFT from my STINT IN THE MARINES but THEY TOOK THEIR CUT, 99%! THEIR WAY is TO GIVE ME  33cents a day for this my 70th year of life. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?  I CANNOT EVEN BUY A MARS BAR a day. I went to the office and the first thing  they did was.....ask me questions about my income so they could reduce the benefit to $23.82 total benefit....for this year's SOLDIER's  "GIFT"  I FEEL that if I found $3  on the ground ....they would deduct it and everything else until the benefit was eliminated by the office guy making $24 an hour plus a xmas bonus! .....and they call this....."helping homeless vets"...... after deductions...the benefits were $2 a month............"helping the poor"....this is called...

SS offices will work the same fraud on YOU or ANY SENIOR.... they deduct long waited for entitlements from  from your  SSI
check so the amount is so small you are forced back into poverty and homelessness!....you should be getting full amounts so you have enough to live on........but Noooooh!

However if you get private pension like you worked at GM in your youth, that kind of money they don't deduct any of it from  your SSI.. Go  Figger! the richer you are...the more you get!  The poorer you are,...the less they give you!

Thank you UNCLE SAM, IMF, FED RESERVE and REPUBLICAN PARTY. AND OBAMA as this law happened on HIS watch !

   
AND SO DOES CONGRESS. BAD LAWS ARE PASSED DAILY!

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