The Marie Antoinette Files Part XXIV: The Gergen prescription

The Marie Files: part XXIV

by digby


David Gergen just made up a huge pile of nonsense on CNN about debt and the deficit. (Did you know that US Treasuries are simultaneously worthless and highly coveted by the cunning Chinese communists who are buying them up like they're going out of style? This also means they have us over a barrel for some reason...)

But the real problem is the deficit which means that "we" are all living beyond "our" means:

"We have to bring these numbers down. We have to live in a more sane way, frankly a more frugal way."


Well, except for the wealthy who need every last penny or the world will come to an end:

GERGEN: I just want to come back to one point Anderson. For the last two days we’ve been hearing about protecting the middle class… protecting the middle class. When we get serious about deficit reduction, you know who’s really going to get hit hard? It’s going to be the middle class. A lot of the mortgage deductions are going to get trimmed back. A lot of those things are going to get trimmed back and you know, I think that Washington is not being straight with people.

Yes we’ve got this… we have a need to get these tax cuts extended. It has to be done and so forth and so on, but trouble is coming for the middle class and the sooner the president and the Congress full level with the American people, the better


Is David Gergen going to be eating cat food after we "bring those numbers down?" I don't think so. But Gergen, like all wealthy Villager believes he's just another middle class working stiff who has the same "skin in the game" as anyone else when, in fact, the extent of David Gergen's sacrifice will be to have to put up with sick, old people lying on the sidewalk to get to his limousine. (And what hell that will be for for him.)

Marie Antoinette at least had the excuse of being a wealthy, cloistered royal in a world she knew little about. What's Gergen's excuse? oh wait ...


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