"Give us trillions in cuts in Medicare and Medicaid or we blow up the economy." Stripped of its politician's gloss, this is the message that House Speaker John Boehner delivered to Wall Street Monday in discussing the price Republicans demand for raising the debt ceiling.
Boehner argues that adopting his position would show that Washington is "starting to get the message" from the American people. But Boehner isn't hearing what most Americans are saying. In fact, the vast majority of Americans don't agree with Boehner's priorities.
niemanwatchdog.org — Members of the Tea Party appear to be overwhelmingly middle class individuals threatened by economic pressures and upset at the failure of government to solve problems. The irony is that they are espousing remedies that will only make things worse for themselves. Yet, with very few exceptions, the media have ignored this contradiction. Why does the Tea Party take positions that injure its members? For the answer, look to the think tanks. And to a complicit press.
niemanwatchdog.org — Keeping the electorate ignorant and misinformed merely requires a compliant and complacent media willing to pay excessive attention and give excessive credibility to the constant drumbeat of propaganda on the budget and debt issued by those who have the most to lose if we deal with it in the context of our shrinking middle class.
You can't open a newspaper or turn on a radio or TV without being told that the world is going to end because of the deficit. The deficit was caused by tax cuts for the rich, huge military spending increases, two wars and the costs of our health care system. more »
Yet another poll is out, showing that the public wants taxes raised on the rich and on Wall Street and the giant multi-national corporations, and does not want cuts in the things We, the People do for each other. Other polls show the public wants cuts in military spending, and increases in spending on infrastructure and other job-creation, economy-growing investment. And, in fact, if we did these things the deficit problem -- caused by tax cuts for the rich and increases in military spending -- would be fixed. So why do Washington deficit-reduction plans always do the opposite?
"Give us trillions in cuts in Medicare and Medicaid or we blow up the economy." Stripped of its politician's gloss, this is 
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