Just a Series of Austerity Bombs
https://portside.org/2017-12-18/just-series-austerity-bombs
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Author: Columnist Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Washington Post
'But the elite bipartisan consensus is focused on sending the bill for Wall Street’s mess to an already battered middle class, by weakening the basic pillars of a family’s economic security — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And they are a lot closer than anyone thinks. The sequester is just the first of a series of austerity bombs that the Republican Congress will use to extort cuts in these benefits.
'It’s time to stop such extortionists from holding our country’s economic future hostage.'