Dangerous times indeed

It is amazing how our Republican politicians are willing to risk default of our debt for the sake of the insanely massive profit to business which will benefit a tiny minority of wealthy people. Their plan has been widely successful for big business in many countries around the world. The profits to businesses resulting from changes like the ones being espoused by republicans here have created billionaires.
What they fail to admit is the incredible price paid by regular people. In every instance this "economic shock" plan has been tried the wealthy have profited beyond their wildest dreams while the middle class has disappeared and joined the ranks of the poor. The end result is a place with a wealthy class unimanginably richer than the majority of people who live in unending poverty. The kicker is that the resulting new status is nearly impossible to break because a staple of this strategy is strengthening the security forces and creating favorable electoral proceses that maintain the status quo. Notice that the Republican plan includes cuts for the poor, tax breaks for the rich and budget increases for security forces. Such process has resulted in a society ruled by the wealthy and sustained by armed forces in all the countries where it has been implemented.
Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, South Africa, Poland, have all been presented as success stories of what they're trying to do with us here. They can do so because few people bother to look in past the headlines. Know what it required for this successes to occur? Elimination of organized labor. Elimination of social services, privatization of most government services, except defense forces.
Who paid for this?
Labor was cut by the thousands. Those who found work had to forgo silly things like, job security, fair wages, job safety, recourse in case of problems, etc.
So the poor were sent deeper into poverty while the wealthy were seeing record profits. Does any of this sound familiar? Have you seen the growth of disparity between the rich and the poor in our country lately? Are you following the war on organized labor throughout our country? The biggest enemies, song labor and a big middle class, are being systematically eliminated. .