Crotty, James - In: Cambridge Journal of Economics 36 (2012) 1, pp. 79-104
-term financing problems in the Social Security and Medicare programmes, have triggered a one-sided austerity-focused class war in the … spending cuts should be seen as what they are--an attack by the rich and powerful against the basic interests of the American … politicians who represent their interests and right-wing populist groups like the Tea Party has demanded that deficits be …