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Thu May-19-11 08:32 PM
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11. Their strategy of "Starve the Beast" has reached the endgame

It took them 30 years of incredibly irresponsible politicking and unnecessary deficit spending to get us here, but you gotta admit the GOP BS finally worked. Now we're hitting the stage where Great Society and New Deal programs can be successfully demolished with little risk to the politicians involved (as Democratic concerns have been reduced to mitigation rather than repair, or heaven forbid, expansion). Once that's finished, the Social Security Surplus is ripe for the picking by whoever has the best lobbyists, and we're back to the gilded age.

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