It is really sad that our country has gotten to this set of choices:

Senate Democratic leaders again rejected calls by House Republicans to wield a "meat ax" in proposing cuts to the federal budget, saying they supported President Barack Obama’s strategy of freezing current spending for five years.[emphasis added]

   One side, the lunatic Republican Party, wants to slash and burn any memory of a social safety netwrok. The other side, Democrats, thinks the better choice is to freeze spending–at a time of despair around the nation, when people need the government to act decisively to replace faltering demand and a job market that is just atrocious.

   Moral bankruptcy is now clearly defined.