by matttbastard
So, after having “cut some stuff just to say that they had cut some stuff” from President Obama’s recovery plan, as publius aptly summed up last night’s contentious-yet-self-congratulatory bipartisan circle jerk, what exactly are we (the people) left with?
[T]he centrists have shaved off $86 billion in spending — much of it among the most effective and most needed parts of the plan. In particular, aid to state governments, which are in desperate straits, is both fast — because it prevents spending cuts rather than having to start up new projects — and effective, because it would in fact be spent; plus state and local governments are cutting back on essentials, so the social value of this spending would be high. But in the name of mighty centrism, $40 billion of that aid has been cut out.
My first cut says that the changes to the Senate bill will ensure that we have at least 600,000 fewer Americans employed over the next two years.
Heck of a motherfucking job, kiddies.
h/t Joe Trippi via Twitter
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As time progresses the left is going to find out exactly why a centrist is not something that we should celebrate. With the country in such desperate straits radical change could be made but the moderates and the right wing will ensure that none of it happens. Remember dismantling privilege will hurt the moderates as well. They are never going to act against their class interest.
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All of them must go
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