By Billy Wharton, Co-Chair Socialist Party USA
On May 1, 2003 then President George W. Bush emerged from a fighter jet on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to make his famously absurd "mission accomplished" speech. Today's announcement of an agreement on a budget deficit package provides current President Barack Obama with his own "mission accomplished" moment. Much like that of Bush, Obama's completed mission will lead to mass suffering and more than a few deaths. Bush's victims were Iraqis and the American soldiers sent to kill them. Obama's will be poor, working class and elderly Americans cut off from vital social programs as a result of budget cuts.
Since his election in 2008, Socialists have been clear about what the Obama administration represented. We often referred to him as a "hedge-fund Democrat." This tag was… (Read on)
Source: Socialist Party USA. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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