The cut in the Citizen’s Income and the brutal way in which it is being carried out are a deliberate provocation. The government of Giorgia Meloni is showing its true fascist face.
The Biden administration, along with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, are united in the determination to use the manufactured debt ceiling crisis to implement brutal attacks on social programs.
The Democratic leaders and the White House are maintaining the fiction that they will not link talks on the budget to raising the debt limit. But, of course, that is precisely what they are doing, and are, in fact, seeking to use the debt crisis as the pretext and cover for imposing further social cuts of their own.
In the current debt ceiling dispute, both sides claim the basic entitlement programs Social Security and Medicare are “off the table.” But behind the choreographed back and forth between the two parties, and over the heads of the population, the corporate elite is preparing to gut these programs to pay for war and bank bailouts.
As the German government and other leading NATO members continue to escalate the proxy war in Ukraine, Left Party chairman Martin Schirdewan seeks to conceal this war policy with phrases about “negotiations” and “diplomacy”.