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Debt Ceiling – Manufactured Crisis forces Bad Bill, and Creates Unconsitional Super Congress
Guest: Jane Hamsher – Producer, author, founder and publisher of the blog FireDogLake. www.firedoglake.com
On Monday, President Obama signed the atrocity known as the Budget Control Act of 2011. 95 house democrats went along with this plan; supporting a bill that is not about financial responsibility – but about using an artificially induced crisis (sound familiar – think Bailout), to enable the wealthiest 2 per cent of Americans to continue getting away with not paying their fair share of taxes.
The groups behind this fake crisis are not concerned about the financial state of the United States of American or about its people, they are concerned with lining their own pockets. They have purchased the political influence they needed to pass a bill that It Takes the legislative authority away from the many and illegally delegates it to a few. It is anti-democratic, irresponsible, Bad policy, bad practice, bad faith And constituently illegal.
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