They want to guarantee that private sector unemployment collapses into a full-scale depression – by shipping jobs overseas.
Barbara Mikulski, Democratic senator from Maryland, best captured the turn of events in the critical US debt talks.
After emerging from a lunch meeting on Thursday with members of her party and Jack Lew, the White House budget director, Ms Mikulski said her colleagues were feeling “volcanic” about the prospect of a $3,000bn deal to cut deficits and raise the debt ceiling that did not include any higher taxes, adding that it was “like Mount Vesuvius” in the roo.Harry Reid, the US Senate majority leader, added: “This can’t be all cuts, there has to be a balance.”
“Dems Shooting For 30% Unemployment”
One more way to increase their party membership. Welfare slaves make reliable voters.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
– Ben Franklin
They do that in Greece.