“Let them eat
cake.”
That’s the infamous
phrase commonly attributed to Queen Marie
Antoinette, wife of the fabulously wealthy French
King Louie XVI, that got their royal heads chopped
off during the French Revolution while the common
people were starving because the ruling class had
all the money. It represents perfectly the utter
arrogance of the monarchy and obliviousness of the
ruling class to the suffering of the common people.
Two centuries have
passed since then yet it appears that little has
changed in the attitudes of governments and the
ruling class toward their sheep.
Today, figuratively
speaking,
Jacob Lew,
Treasury Secretary of the United States under the
feckless Obama administration is saying the very
same kind of thing to the nation’s vulnerable sick
and old people living on Social Security, Medicare,
as well as other low level commoners with respect to
the looming government shutdown:
“Let them eat
dog food.”
This top cabinet
level government parasite delivered a stern warning
to Congress last week about the consequences of not
raising the debt ceiling, saying that Medicare,
Social Security, and military veteran’s checks will
likely be first on the government chopping block if
the debt ceiling deadline is missed.
His remarks are
meant to scare the daylights out of old and sick
people so that they will prevail upon their
congressmen and senators to cave in to the
president’s heavy handed demand to raise the debt
ceiling without cutting more and more spending.
He’s deliberately
and cynically targeting vulnerable defenseless
elderly people who have worked hard all their lives;
folks who were forced by government laws into the
Social Security and Medicare schemes whether they
liked it or not; people who deserve every dime of
those retirement benefits, and now are stuck with it
as the only means with which to fund their meager
health, living and financial needs as they approach
the end of their lives.
"Under any
scenario, we will be defaulting on obligations,"
Lew said.
But Lew and the
rest of the top government parasites won’t have to
worry about their paychecks. The bond holders who
hold the massive government debt instruments won’t
have to worry about their interest payments. All the
grasping foreign nations and their parasite rulers
who gobble up $billions in American foreign aid
every year, year after year, won’t have to worry
about their loot.
Virtually every
fat-assed freeloader who currently feeds at the
government trough will continue to feed there as
usual. It is only the old, the sick and the
vulnerable Americans who will suffer.
"We believe the
government would continue to pay interest and
principal on its debt, even in the event that the
debt limit is not raised, leaving its
creditworthiness intact,"
says Credit-rating agency Moody's in a recent
report. Moody's explained that the Treasury
Department would find a way to pay interest on its
debt above all else. "The debt limit restricts
government expenditures to the amount of its
incoming revenues; it does not prohibit the
government from servicing its debt. There is no
direct connection between the debt limit (actually
the exhaustion of the Treasury's extraordinary
measures to raise funds) and a default."
"The United
States should not be put in a position of making
such perilous choices for our economy and our
citizens,"
Lew whined. But he conveniently omits the fact that
the United States would not be in this position had
it not been for the parasite political class
spending and borrowing and then spending and
borrowing more and more as if the money supply were
endless and no extravagance were too much.
The United States
government credit card has been maxed out for
decades now. But instead of reducing the outrageous
spending, balancing the budget and otherwise acting
responsibly to get the financial situation under
control, it just keeps demanding over and over again
that the credit limit be raised, and Congress has
caved in every time because Congress is addicted to
the drug of recklessly spending money.
The old folks on
Social Security and Medicare didn’t get our country
into this mess. Far from it.; they are the
responsible trusting citizens who paid taxes all
their lives, obeyed the government’s laws and lived
frugally within their means.
So now Treasury
Secretary Lew is saying that their government is
going to fuck them over like a bunch of dupes:
“Let them eat
dog food.”
© 2010 Timothy J Taylor.
http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2013/10/let-them-eat-dog-food.html
© 2010 Timothy J Taylor.
http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2013/10/let-them-eat-dog-food.html