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It’s only a matter of time before the richest one percent no longer must suffer the indignities of viewing the poor on their way to the corporate boardroom. President Obama apparently agrees with many Republicans that having to view scruffy child pan-handlers and unkempt car hotels is enough to put one off one’s lunch. The debt ceiling solution almost guarantees that the poor will become much more invisible, if only because a good many of them will be dead.

In championing a reverse Robin Hood approach to the problem of our over-borrowing, the President favors taking food out of the mouths of the poor and the unemployed and redistributing the money where it belongs—to ensure that our bright, shiny war machine remains freshly polished.

It’s a solution to a problem, even if temporary, that only a Republican could love, and a heartless Republican at that. The President is the first to admit that the debt deal is not ideal, that it is only a start. One wonders, with a start like this, what he might actually hope to achieve down the road. When it comes to protecting tax breaks for the rich, can the food stamp program be far from the chopping block?

With an across the board rejection of an unemployment extension, the President has championed a solution which opens the door to the evisceration of every social program designed by men of conscience for those needing a helping hand.

Obama also expressly agrees with his Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that the government should wage war on its own citizens rather than cut expenditures on its warring abroad. The only social program Panetta seems to find worthy is one that puts a rifle in the hands of all who are capable of carrying one, a program that affords poor young men and women a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit exotic lands and kill exotic men. Mr. Panetta’s social program for the poor and under-educated is undeniably color blind, so let it never be said that Panetta lacks compassion for the poor and suffering among us. He singles out primarily the young and unfortunate, and mainly those of color, to serve patriotically and honorably as this nation’s canon-fodder. The funds these young men earn through the Panetta social program go a long way to providing an education for their children and a nicely tri-folded American flag for their wives.

Meanwhile, the rich are free to enjoy the tax breaks only they know how to successfully navigate, and to avoid paying taxes entirely if they are well-lawyered up. The President apparently agrees with his corporate handlers that someone must pay the freight for their years of financial largesse, and who better to do so than the poor and the middle class.

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