{"id":74773,"date":"2013-01-02T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/02\/the-harder-they-fall\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:08:44","slug":"the-harder-they-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/02\/the-harder-they-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abThe harder they fall\u2026<\/em>\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00abThe harder they fall<\/em>\u00bb<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe bord de la falaise fiscale recul\u00e9e de quelques centim\u00e8tres, pas plus Personne n’y croit une seconde. Le Syst\u00e8me r\u00e9agit comme une machine ivre et titubante, calculant au plus juste la mesure minimale emp\u00eachant tr\u00e8s temporairement un effondrement qui n’est d’ailleurs m\u00eame pas fondamental \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 des r\u00e9elles menaces qui p\u00e8sent sur lui, et un effondrement institu\u00e9 par ses propres lois, \u00e9dict\u00e9es il y a peu. La falaise fiscale, qualifi\u00e9e en Europe de mur plut\u00f4t que de falaise (sans doute pour ne pas laisser croire cette chose monstrueuse que les USA pourraient dispara\u00eetre dans un trou), a \u00e9t\u00e9 avanc\u00e9e sur son bord de quelques centim\u00e8tres, ou quelques mois si l’on veut, pour \u00e9viter une chute dont maints sp\u00e9cialistes vous disent par ailleurs qu’elle n’est qu’un paravent pour cacher d’autres effondrements bien plus pressants et bien plus d\u00e9cisifs. Quoi qu’il en soit, on a pu voir au moins quelque chose de vrai<\/strong> : le monde washingtonien en action pour \u00e9carter les probl\u00e8mes et nullement les r\u00e9soudre, et d’ailleurs pour r\u00e9soudre quoi puisque ces probl\u00e8mes eux-m\u00eames sont unanimement d\u00e9sign\u00e9s comme des couvertures pour les vrais<\/strong> probl\u00e8mes et ainsi de suite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAinsi disaient les experts de Russia Today<\/em> le 1er janvier 2013<\/a>, sans m\u00eame se r\u00e9f\u00e9rer aux r\u00e9sultats pr\u00e9cis des n\u00e9gociations de Washington<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThis is the year we see banksters in jail, Max Keiser has told the first broadcast team in Moscow. The host of RT’s Max Keiser Show,’ speaking from London, added that ordinary people will continue to suffer in 2013 from government-imposed and bank-sponsored bailouts throughout the world. Max also promised 50 shades of fun for his special someone on the first night of the New Year. The fiscal cliff is just more theater from bankers and politicians trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe that is a bunch of whackers and bankers who are manipulating the system day in and day out destroying the economy, Keiser said of the US economy. He predicted more of the same in 2013: Anything to deflect attention from the mob with their pitchforks and their tortures, who are coming after these people. They just want to delay this day of reckoning for as many months as they can.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’un des commentaires du Washington Times<\/em> du 31 d\u00e9cembre 2012<\/a>, peu avant que le compromis, ou accord de la falaise, ou ce que vous voudrez et que le texte qualifie plut\u00f4t de football politique, ait \u00e9t\u00e9 vot\u00e9, donne la tonalit\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. (\u00abCongress to punt political football again rather than tackle problem.<\/em>\u00bb) Tonalit\u00e9 d\u00e9senchant\u00e9e, fataliste, sans la moindre perspective de la moindre esp\u00e9rance d’am\u00e9lioration des choses <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab Washington on Monday was poised to do what it does best: invent a half-solution to a full problem while punting the toughest questions for later and setting up more deadline drama. It’s the latest in a string of deals over the past two years that couples small movement on spending with an agreement to revisit the issue soon, which is what led to the \u00ab\u00a0fiscal cliff\u00a0\u00bb in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe deal lawmakers were trying to finalize Monday night would do the same thing. It would cancel some of the looming automatic spending cuts from the last debt deal, but for only two months, which sets up another fight several months down the road just as the next debt-ceiling fight kicks in.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’imbroglio est complet et nous d\u00e9sesp\u00e9rons de jamais trouver le courage de tenter de comprendre l’extraordinaire labyrinthe que le Syst\u00e8me est en train de d\u00e9velopper pour d\u00e9layer l’\u00e9norme et insoluble probl\u00e8me fiscal en une multitude de mini-\u00e9normes et insolubles probl\u00e8mes fiscaux, qui deviendront, chacun leur tour, aussi \u00e9normes et insolubles que le probl\u00e8me initial. La course de sprint<\/em> au pr\u00e9cipice est devenue une course d’obstacles o\u00f9 l’on tourne en rond en s’invectivant et en s’insultant pour d\u00e9tourner l’esprit de l’\u00e9ch\u00e9ance, laquelle se signalera n\u00e9cessairement, un jour ou l’autre \u00e0 notre attention, et l\u00e0, comme ce sera le plus loin possible, the harder they fall<\/em>, pour reprendre le titre d’un film fameux<\/a>, lequel ne faisait que reprendre le dicton \u00e9galement fameux plus dure sera la chute. (Ce que traduit un parlementaire de la Chambre de cette fa\u00e7on : Il s’agissait de l’ascension d’une falaise fiscale, maintenant il s’agit d’un long voyage sur des montagnes fiscales.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tEncore un essai pour comprendre ? Essayons The Independent<\/em>, relayant un article du Washington Post<\/em>, ce qui montre qu’on s’entend bien entre comp\u00e8res de la presse-Syst\u00e8me, m\u00eame de tendances un peu diff\u00e9rentes. Cette fois, pourtant, on reconna\u00eetra que cette m\u00eame presse-Syst\u00e8me montre un certain d\u00e9senchantement, voire un certain \u00e9coeurement devant ce spectacle. Dans The Independent<\/em>, donc, ce 1er janvier 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abThe fiscal cliff was designed by Washington for Washington it was intended to set up a scenario so severe that the president and Congress would, at last, have to take on the nation’s major tax and spending problems. Instead, lawmakers again found a way to sidestep many of the prickliest issues and in the process set up other, potentially more severe, showdowns in the new year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbSenate leaders reached a deal with the White House late Monday that would spare the middle class from an income tax increase, extending tax breaks first enacted under President George W. Bush for individuals making less than $400,000 and couples making less than $450,000. It would also delay for two months the deep automatic spending cuts that were set to hit the military and domestic programs Wednesday. Assuming the deal is approved, it will nevertheless give way to a nearly continuous series of fights that will consume the first part of the year, even as President Barack Obama might hope to shift Congress’s attention to immigration reform and gun control.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb\u00ab\u00a0It’s become less like a fiscal cliffhanger and more like a journey over the fiscal mountains, said Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe next big deadline is likely to come around the end of February, when the Treasury Department will exhaust the measures now in place to extend the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling. At that point, the government will not be able to pay its bills unless Congress votes to raise the nation’s legal borrowing limit. Republicans hope to use that moment to force Obama and congressional Democrats to agree to major spending cuts in return for the increase in what could be a sequel to the contentious face-off over the debt limit in the summer of 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbProvided Monday’s deal is approved, in early March would come another deadline: the $110 billion cut in spending, half from the Pentagon, delayed as part of this deal. A month or so later on March 27 a short-term measure that funds government agencies will lapse. Without a renewal, the government will shut down, setting up another possible showdown. Round two’s coming, said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. And we’re going to have one hell of a contest about the direction and the vision of this country.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe spectacle est sans surprise. On dira que ce constat est apr\u00e8s coup, et qu’on ne l’a pas fait avant, ce qui est paradoxal ou bien signe d’une paresse de l’esprit et d’un manque d’audace de jugement : l’absence de surprise, finalement, comme une surprise puisque l’on se trouvait surtout devant l’alternative entre blocage irr\u00e9solu pr\u00e9cipitant la chute du bord de la falaise fiscale, ou l’accord \u00e9vitant cette chute d’une fa\u00e7on constructive avec les solutions apport\u00e9e \u00e0 tous les probl\u00e8mes pos\u00e9s. Il n’y a rien eu de tout cela, mais la voie moyenne qui est la voie du refus, de l’aveuglement, de l’arrangement \u00e0 tr\u00e8s court terme et ainsi de suite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tOn dira : quelle importance puisque la falaise fiscale est du bidon, puisque camouflant d’autres probl\u00e8mes beaucoup plus graves, amusant la galerie (\u00abThe fiscal cliff is just more theater from bankers and politicians trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe<\/em>\u00bb) ? La r\u00e9ponse est simple : parce qu’il y a la psychologie Et l\u00e0, nous parlons autant, sinon plus, du Syst\u00e8me et de son personnel de direction. M\u00eame s’ils savent tous confus\u00e9ment qu’il s’agit d’un th\u00e9\u00e2tre, reste que chacun doit se prendre au jeu, parce qu’il y va de son statut, de son parti, de sa position, et puis parce que, finalement, la tension existe et monte, et elle cr\u00e9e un enjeu \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me, qu’il s’agit de relever. Le syst\u00e8me de la communication met en sc\u00e8ne ce th\u00e9\u00e2tre, et il s’y entend pour les effets, les cascades, les dramatisations ; et, finalement, le montage-bidon, le th\u00e9\u00e2tre, par ces processus de tension et de dramatisation, finit par refl\u00e9ter la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de la profondeur de la crise qu’il \u00e9tait cens\u00e9 dissimuler. Le Syst\u00e8me, gr\u00e2ce au syst\u00e8me de la communication, n’en finit pas d’appliquer cette \u00e9trange tactique de dissimulation de type-boomerang<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa suite de la pi\u00e8ce dans quelques semaines, avec plusieurs actes \u00e0 r\u00e9p\u00e9tition. Chaque fois un nouveau montage cousu de fil rouge, un nouveau th\u00e9\u00e2tre classique, mais chaque fois une vraie tension, \u00e0 nouveau la profondeur de la crise v\u00e9ritable entr’aper\u00e7ue, sinon d\u00e9couverte compl\u00e8tement. Un jour il y aura un faux-pas, ou bien, plus simplement, les petits sapiens<\/em>-Syst\u00e8me ne tiendront plus le rythme. Et alors, comme disait Bogart, le dur au cur d’or, The harder they fall<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 2 janvier 2012 \u00e0 09H05<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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