Ask yourself WHY , WHY , WHY did Republicans say let them eat cake , no bailout for the People, when We were in the covid pandemic economic depression, with long food lines and mass unemployment? Why when We know the federal government can afford it because they bailed out big businesses for trillions during the pandemic ? Because We are in a class struggle , 1% beating down on the 99% ! Republicans keeping the masses down so they don’t have the strength to fight back . Furthermore, My hypothesis is that in the US , many of the 1% want recession and economic crisis because they can make killings better when many business are failing. Thus, the current tea Republicans in Congress, as agents of the biggest bourgeoisie, push austerity knowing that it will hurt the economy ,not help it. They know that it is a lie that cutting the budget to balance the budget will do anything good for "the" economy , but will tend to create more crisis; and in crisis the One capitalists (that Karl Marx refers to above )kill many other capitalists.