Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Obama, Democrats hail deal to slash unemployment benefits

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Obama, Democrats hail deal to slash unemployment benefits

Click here to access article by Barry Grey from World Socialist Web Site.

US media celebrates the latest attack on workers by framing their coverage of a Congressional bill as cutting worker taxes. But, here is the real story.

Presented by the Obama administration and the media as a boon to hard-pressed working Americans, the measure is in reality a cruel and punitive assault on the working class—in the first instance, those most severely impacted by nearly four years of mass unemployment.

Also, for more details on this bill, see this article from FireDogLake.