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This really is the neo-con shock doctrine. These bankers and credit rating agencies caused the crisis and now they seem determined to make workers pay even more by exacerbating the crisis.

Neo-con shock doctrine ? This is the product of collective US governments spending more than they collected in tax revenue.

Why do you think the bankers and credit rating agencies would want to exacerbate the crisis ?

$4 trillion of cuts isn't enough? Its hard to even comprehend how much money that is let alone the social problems it will cause.

It's easy to comprehend, it's around £3 dollars and 57 cents a day for every man women and child in the US.

($4,000,000,000,000 over 10 years in a population of 307,006,550 is $1,302.90 a year - or just under £3 and 57 cents a day).

The debt is currently $14 trillion (and estimated to exceed $23 trillion by 2021), do you feel it should just be left to grow ?

The pro-cuts-in-public-spending side of the debate is easy to demonize (a poster of a hospital queue and a crying baby with the words "neo-con shock doctrine" underneath should do the trick) but the debate is a little more complex than that.