The Daily Banter

The Attack on Pensions and the End of the American Dream

My Thursday column is appropriately angry. RT and Like often!

The debt and deficit are evidently making American voters more insane and more self-defeating than they usually are. Conservatives, conservative financiers, anti-Obama zealots and a ridiculously complicit press corp have tapped into an easily-fooled, low-information population of Americans and convinced them that budgetary issues are way, way, way more dangerous than they really are.

Consequently, voters are helping to destroy the last remaining sliver of the American dream: pensions for government workers.

Not only did Wisconsin voters re-elect Scott Walker this week, hammering the final nail in coffin for government workers there. But in San Jose and San Diego, California, voters passed anti-pension ballot initiatives with landslide margins. CONTINUED HERE...