It doesn’t get more sick than this, 1500+ pages of complete craziness. Manifesto.

As the World is hit by drought in East Africa, Greece is falling of the cliff, psychopaths in Norway, the debt debate continues in the US. One can not but wonder what path the mighty US has chosen. Huffington Post reports;

Every part of the budget debate in the U.S. is built on a tissue of willful deceit. Consider the Republican Party’s double-mantra that the deficit results from “runaway spending” and that more tax cuts are the key to economic growth. Republicans claim that the budget deficit, around 10 percent of GDP, has been caused only by a rise in outlays. This is blatantly untrue. The deficit results roughly equally from a fall of tax revenues as a share of GDP and a rise of spending as a share of GDP.

Thus, at every crucial opportunity, Obama has failed to stand up for the poor and middle class. He refused to tax the banks and hedge funds properly on their outlandish profits; he refused to limit in a serious way the bankers’ mega-bonuses even when the bonuses were financed by taxpayer bailouts; and he even refused to stand up against extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich last December, though 60 percent of the electorate repeatedly and consistently demanded that the Bush tax cuts at the top should be ended. It’s not hard to understand why. Obama and Democratic Party politicians rely on Wall Street and the super-rich for campaign contributions the same way that the Republicans rely on oil and coal. In America today, only the rich have political power.

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Some good watching on illusion, herd behavior and critical thinking. Welcome to Starsuckers.

Below history of the Debt Ceiling presented by Washington Post. Presented without comment.

Ever thought about that coal trade? Here is the last 30 years shift in trend…