Why is this recession different from all other recessions? There is a simple answer: the austerity fetish. The bizarre notion that cutting is healing.

It's one thing to go to a public place, surrounded by like-minded people, and sound off. It's quite another to go to a sit-in, knowing full well that you won't be home that night -- you'll be sharing a jail cell.

Honestly, when you look at the facts, America's robber barons spending huge wads of cash to get rid of the Democrats are like lemmings. They're all jumping off the money cliff, and they're taking everyone else with them.

At least in Rome, the citizens enjoyed bread and circuses. Now it's no bread, and no circuses. The Ryan Budget feeds old people to the lions. And sick people. And students. And the unemployed.