I Still Don't Sleep At Night

This article foretelling neo-con radicalism leading to the banana republic of the U.S.A. is reprinted by Smirking Chimp but it was originally published in that radical rag, The New York Times. And Paul Krugman quotes in that article from the staid British Financial Times which is tolling the bell for America as we know it. The safety nets of the last 70 years will not hold as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are depleted. Klugman writes, " But the people now running America aren't conservatives: they're radicals who want to do away with the social and economic system we have, and the fiscal crisis they are concocting may give them the excuse they need. The Financial Times, it seems, now understands what's going on, but when will the public wake up?" It's time to call a spade a spade. It's time to say, "Look, the Emperor has no clothes on."