monitoring the abyss

Which part don't you get?  The wealth transfer machine is at it again with faux debate designed to misdirect.  Both parties wish to do precisely the same thing, and that is transfer more wealth to the wealthy.

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Please follow carefully:  the only value to money is based on the power to tax, supported by threat of violence against those who do not pay the tax.  Period.  I could make the leaves on my lemon tree into valuable currency if I had a tax collection police force to require you to give me a particular number of MY lemon tree leaves once a year.  You would have to do work for me in order to get certified (non-counterfeit) leaves from my tree.  I would be solely in control of determining how much work you have to do to get lemon leaves directly from me.  (Once in circulation, of course, everyone would be free to lie, cheat and steal to liberate lemon leaves from those who diligently worked to obtain them.  Want to buy a Timeshare anyone?  Not that gullible?  I have a 401k I'd like to sell you ...)

The government creates money out of the air.  If everyone is given equal access to the created money, there is no wealth transfer.  If all of the money is given to Wall Street, the people and companies to whom it is given do not have to provide any work to the government.  NOTICE HOW BIG CORPORATIONS DO NOT PAY ANY TAXES?  If money is given to working people, then they have to provide LESS WORK in return for their tax money.

Social services and infrastructure spending put money in the pockets of working people.  Social Security allows the elderly to NOT WORK.  Medicare allows working people to NOT HAVE TO WORK HARDER when they are sick.  To the extent working people don't have to work so hard (because the government is sharing wealth with them) the wealthy have to give up more of the spoils they believe they are entitled by birth to obtain.   Fourteen hour days spent in a series of meetings in posh restaurants, country clubs and gym/spas does not constitute "work".  It is consumption and working people have to produce the goods and services the wealthy consume.

The baby boomer generation is on the leading edge of retirement.  That removes a good deal of productivity (and demands that the smaller next generation produce more per capita.)  This comes at a time where the entitlements allocated to the weathiest have skyrocketed.  The working generation(s) are understandably in revolt. They do not wish to support the idle and infirm, when they cannot support themselves.  BUT THEY FAIL TO PAY ANY ATTENTION TO WHERE THEIR PRODUCTIVITY IS ACTUALLY GOING.

Hey, good work!  Let's (pretend to) balance that ole' budget -- and let's do it by cutting all the "entitlements" to the weak and infirm.  Let's remove the infrastructure that makes daily life palatable. Want to educate your kids?  Get off your duff and pay for private schooling.  Because, hey, we've got wars to fight, banks to support, YADA, YADA!

Don't like any of this?  Get yourself into a criminal line of work, such as Investment Banking -- the goverment promises not to prosecute your "white collar crimes" anyway.  (Too busy putting marijuana smokers in jail; and of course, anyone who looks behind the smoke and mirrors.)

I HOPE you like the CHANGE ...

(Goood work, morons.)