Gene Lyons: Scrooge ain't broke and neither is the government

[flpoljunkie]

Scrooge ain't broke and neither is the government
Contrary to Tea Party dogma, American prosperity has always depended on public-private synergy[br />
BY GENE LYONS


AP
John Boehner

Maybe instead of playing budgetary chicken with congressional Republicans, the White House should search carnival side shows and TV shopping channels for a Democratic Glenn Beck. Any glib pitchman could outline a Republican scheme to sabotage the U.S. economy to gain political power far more plausible than Beck's shaggy-dog conspiracies.

Think about it. Here we are three years into the hardest times since the 1930s, caused by a nationwide real estate bubble and Wall Street scams that would make a blackjack dealer blush. (Actually, come to think of it, unemployment in Las Vegas remains among the nation's worst.)

Catastrophe was averted. The economy's mending. Nevertheless, nationwide unemployment hovers near 9 percent and the recovery's limping at a pace that will take years to restore normalcy. So what do Republicans want to do? Why, to slash spending and put thousands of government employees on the unemployment lines to compete with millions already standing there, of course.

If that makes sense to you, then you've been successfully hoodwinked by what I call the Scrooge McDuck conspiracy. Uncle Scrooge, if you recall, was Donald Duck's tightwad zillionaire relative who wore spats and a top hat even when dabbling in his bullion vault.

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Scrooge ain't broke and neither is the government

[Blue Owl]

1. In Koch we don't trust

:kick:

[xchrom]

2. there's no such thing as 'shared sacrifice'.

make them what broke it pay for it.

[liberal N proud]

3. "Were Broke" has been a scam all along

Designed to bring the government and the middle class to their knees.

Other benefits they are reaping from this is the huge privatization of everything they can pull out of the government, selling off at bargain basement prices to the lowest bidder.

A get rich scheme for the billionaires. They want it all and they want it now!