In the absence of any meaningful attempts to resolve the “crisis” escalation of same is inevitable.

Things haven’t gotten bad enough yet for the people who are in positions to help resolve matters. But don’t worry, in due time.

“it’s important to keep in mind that a “bailout” of Greece just uses the sovereign as a pass-through to bail out French and German banks. That’s the untold story here.”

Why is that story untold? It should be shouted from every rooftop! All bailouts in the EU and US were about bailing out not the recipient of the bailout funds but the recipients’ creditors.

They made bad loans, too bad. But they alos made wise “investments” in the politicians who have been and continue to bail them out.

Exactly.

Super explosive underwear, break out the nukes.

Morbid curiousity is all it takes to subject yourself to Fineman’s musings?

“Traditional working place pensions are becoming less common”

Traditional working place pensions are not common at all and haven’t been for years. Don’t play into right wing product positioning.

Slowing down the rate of increase is a cut, should be considered a cut, and furthermore should be considered woefully inadequate in the case of our bloated defense budget.

Next year, when our “Democratic” President proposes to work with the GOP in slowing down the rate of growth in SS & Medicare, well, that too will be a cut. Also.

Obama breaks the public option pledge but the not the no middle class tax increase pledge?

If you are middle class you work and likely have employer provided health insurance and face no tax consequence or penalty. If you are at a lower economic station the Govt subsidizes your insurance, so again no tax penalty.

How is that raising taxes on the middle class?

Maybe you’re missing the context with which kids read these stories, what kids see every day, public school kids anyway. The economic inequality that disappears as professional adults lose the day to day contact with their less well to do neighbors that they had as children all thrown into the same school. I think they read these books, see this movie and light bulbs go off in their heads and some of them hopefully begin seeing connections between government policies and the survival struggles of some of their friends, and the “poor people sucks attitude” of their better off neighbors.

It can’t hurt.

I saw it differently, as kind of pointing out to Southern hillbillies who in the real world mostly support conservative policies that routinely screw them over, how they in particular are victimized by the 1%, or The Capitol in the movie. I think the movie does a nice job of showing how the Government is simply of, for & by the richest folks, and how real life shows like Survivor and Idol, which I suspect may enjoy the highest ratings in theese rural poorer areas, are the gladiator spectacles of the modern age.

Mormon or Moron? I think it is clear which Southern GOP voters prefer.

Completely agree with supporting third parties etc. Dems have simply become yesterday’s GOP. How on Earth any left leaning voter thinks supporting Dems will somehow bring about the society and government they long for is beyond me. If anything, it prolongs the day a New New Deal will come about. Debs and other socialists were receiving significant shares of the vote before FDR began his New Deal.

Of course, the next financial/economic catastrophe promises to be even bigger than Sept 2008 so leftist “dems’ have that going for them. Absolute catastrophe does have a way of prompting change.

While I support the Keystone Pipeline in large part to lessen our dependence upon and military involvement in the MIddle East, Obama’s approach to this is indefensible, patting his base on the head while trying to have it yet again both ways. BTW, didn’t Obama say the same thing about approving deep ocean drilling in the Gulf, that we didn’t have to choose between safety/environment and oil, we could have both; that safety had been so much improved? I guess that’s been so many many media cycles ago he figures, probably correctly, enough people cannot remember.

I thought Drill Baby Drill was Palin & co in 2008. So glad we have choices at election time.

No worries, Democratic President Obama can veto any bills that are against the public interest.

Is this story in yoor local newspaper today, much less front page?