Truest statement of the week II

Obama’s remarks added to mounting evidence that behind the appearance of partisan warfare in Washington, the two big business parties are planning to use a crisis produced by an extended government shutdown as a smokescreen for reaching a deal to impose historic attacks on the bedrock social programs left over from the New Deal and Great Society periods.




--  Barry Grey, "US shutdown a smokescreen for assault on Social Security, Medicare" (WSWS).