Grassley to constituent: if you want decent health insurance, go work for the government

All that becomes less and less likely as the US economy careens closer to depression. The looter class was unleashed by Clintons deregulation, began looting in earnest under Bush's sympathetic gaze and was rewarded by Obama with trillions to make good their self-inflicted financial wounds.

The Wall Street Journal warned that as soon Clinton signed the 1999 deregulation bill taht

"With the stroke of the president's pen, investment firms like Merrill Lynch & Co. and banks like Bank of America Corp., are expected to be on the prowl for acquisitions."

What working people acquired is looking a lot like a depression.

Unemployment is growing at about 500,000 to 750,000 per month and now stands at 9.5%. A measure of how close the Clinton-Bush-Obama recession is to becoming a depression is the 'real' rate, measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "Alternative measures of labor underutilization", at 16.5%. That figure is still undercounted because it doesn't include immigrant and imported workers. By way of comparison in 1931, well into the Great Depression, the GNP was falling steadily, down 8.5% from 1930 and unemployment rose to 15.9%.

The economic tidal wave is overrunning the abilities of many states to operate. Seven can't even pass budgets because of unprecedented deficits; California (budget deficit-$24 billion), Illinois ($9.2 billion), Pennsylvania ($4.8 billion), North Carolina ($4.6 billion), Connecticut ($4.1 billion), Ohio ($3.3 billion) and Mississippi ($480 million).

Welfare and social services aren't increasing and are even being slashed in response to the deepening economic crisis.  

A new depression combined with a bevy of unwinnable wars will be the political graveyard of the twin parties of the looting class.  

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.