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As the US government shutdown continues, nearly every positive federal government program has halted its operations, from nutrition assistance to medical research to regulation of industry and finance. Of course, as hundreds of thousands of federal workers, whose wages have been under relentless attack for half a decade, are forced to shut down work and forfeit pay, the vast US military and intelligence apparatus operates more or less unimpeded by the political showmanship in Washington DC. Of course, the US Federal Reserve continues to dispense $85bn per month in free credit to the banks.
Behind the facade of “partisan gridlock”, the real purpose of this artificially created crisis atmosphere (the third of its kind in the past six years) becomes clearer. As Republicans drop their ostensible insistence on defunding the Affordable Care Act, they are beginning to come together with Obama and the Democrats to carry out a shared agenda: massive cuts to Medicare and Social Security, along with every other social gain of the working class won through a century of bitter struggle.
Please join us Tuesday to get informed and get involved!
Here are a few key news articles covering the shutdown:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/30/budg-s30.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/01/shut-o01.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/02/pers-o02.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/02/shut-o02.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/07/budg-o07.html
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/12/budg-o12.html
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