The Democrats and Republicans make a deal. After all, they're "reasonable" people.

The name changes, the economics stays the same

Obama: the deal they just reached will introduce "the lowest level of domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president"

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid:
"Sometimes it seems our two sides disagree on almost everything,....but in the end, reasonable people were able to agree on this: The United States could not take the chance of defaulting on our debt, risking a United States financial collapse and a world-wide depression."

"Reasonable people".  What we have to be clear about as the little charade, yet one of many charades is over is that Reid is not talking to US workers, he is not talking to the poor, the folks who have lost homes or the two million in prison.  He is talking to the class he represents.  He is talking to the unelected rulers of society.  The purpose of the charade and the media coverage of it was  to convince the American workers and middle class that more austerity is on the way in the form of further direct cuts in services as well as through increased taxes.  These were the only choices, there is no third way; you have to passively accept it as the alternative is worse.

The children of the world can die by the hundreds of thousands each day for want of food and water simply because it is not profitable to provide it.  Two million people can rot in the US gulag and millions more will lose their homes and jobs but the "responsible" people have ended scene one act 1. The twin parties of capital have produced the right results., with no opposition .

Obama will raise one billion dollars in order to be reelected and preside as head of this machine as it reduces living standards drastically for US workers and drives America's poor even further in to the abyss of misery and uncertainty.  The heads of organized Labor as usual will spend hundreds of million of dollars, their member's hard earned dues money, that also pays their obscene salaries trying to convince workers to vote for a party that most have recognized cannot resolve the problems we face and is actually a main cause of them.  They will continue to urge workers to vote for a party that they have abandoned long ago.  The role of these leaders is criminal.

The economic system we call capitalism periodically comes to a halt, must shut down production  Marx described it long ago:

"Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce."
He adds,  
"And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented."

They are paving the way for more crisis indeed and what is certain is that there will be some explosion in this country at some point.  Due to the role of the Labor hierarchy, the weakening of workers' organizations and subsequently the lack of an organized form through which the anger that exists in US society can be expressed, the coming movement will be more confused, violent and complex than necessary.  The role of the Labor officialdom is a major reason that some workers can get sucked in to the Tea Bagger's movement, "nature abhors a vacuum" as the saying goes.  It is hard to say when the "outrage" will brreak decisively in to the open and change this situation; but break out in to the open it will.

Egyptians aren't the only people that get angry and act on it.  A cursory glimpse in to US working class history teaches us that.