In Non-Election News, Plutocrats Still Plotting to Kill Social Security

The more obvious it becomes every day that without a massive jobs bill, double-digit unemployment is here to stay, the more desperate become what Scarecrow at Firedoglake calls the deficit vultures to destroy the last remnants of a financial safety net.

Digby on the insanity:

Doctors have determined that patients heal much faster if they are given strong pain medication after surgery because the stress of extreme pain causes the body to react unpredictably. For years, however, hospitals were run by religious organizations which adhere to dogma that says suffering is good for the soul and it was hard to convince them that giving large amounts of drugs to control the pain was the right thing to do. Now I thought that the economic corollary had been settled in the Great Depression, but evidently the economic medicine men have decided that we need to go back to biting the bullet rather than inject money into the system to make it heal faster and better.

Yet all is not lost:

Dissenting voices are starting to make themselves heard on reform and austerity and it may just mean there's going to be a debate, at least, which sort of surprises me.

Krugman had more today on the current fiscal dementia. Here's Brad Delong on the same.

They're sounding very, very shrill.

Add your voice to theirs - Call or email your members of Congress and tell them to feed the economy, starve the plutocrats.