Webster Griffin Tarpley
Tarpley.net
October 4, 2012
No matter whether Obama or Romney wins the coming presidential
election, American working people will face a savage assault on their
economic rights starting after the vote. The asset stripper Romney and
his sidekick Ryan have openly demanded the shredding of the existing
social safety net, while channeling the proceeds to parasitical bankers
and hedge fund operators. Obama, using his usual method of deception,
has signaled more discreetly his intention of using the hysteria around
the alleged Fiscal Cliff to seal a Grand Bargain with the reactionary
Republicans at the expense of the American people during the December
lame duck session of Congress.
Austerity and Sacrifice Spell Genocide Against Americans
In reality, any demand for more austerity, sacrifice, or cuts in
social services on the part of the American people amounts to a demand
for genocide — a Nuremberg crime. Real unemployment is now in excess of
30 million people in the United States . Over 50 million people are in
the most extreme poverty, with no job, no unemployment benefits, no
welfare system, no health care, and only a meager allotment of food
stamps to stay alive. And Republicans and Democrats agree that food
stamps will be next to go! Other families are facing foreclosures by
corrupt robo-judges and robo-signers, as the American middle class is
crushed under $1 trillion of
student loan
debt and $1 trillion of high interest credit card debt. All of this
follows a secular decline of almost two thirds in the American standard
of living over the last four decades.
Who Will Pay for the World Depression?
As a result of globalization and the world derivatives panic of 2008,
the United States and the world are gripped by an economic depression
more destructive than that of the 1930s. The central political question
today is: Who will pay for this depression? The class warriors of Wall
Street want working people, the middle class, and the poor to foot the
bill. But justice and economic survival demand that the costs of the
Depression be borne by the zombie bankers and hedge fund hyenas who were
responsible for the crisis in the first place.
Class Defense Needed
