Posted on 06/04/2011 4:19:16 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
The silence is deafening. While the rest of the nation is heading back toward a double dip, Washington continues to obsess about future budget deficits. Why?
Republicans don’t want to do anything about jobs and wages. They’re so intent on unseating Obama they’d like the economy to remain in the dumps through Election Day. They also see the lousy economy as an opportunity to sell Americans their big lie that government spending is the culprit — and jobs will return if spending is cut and government shrinks.
Democrats, meanwhile, don’t want to admit the recovery has stalled. They worry such talk will further undermine consumer confidence or spook the bond market. They don’t want to head into the election year sounding downbeat. And they don’t think they have the votes for anything that will have much effect before Election Day anyway.
But there’s a third reason for Washington’s inaction. It’s not being talked about — which is itself evidence of the problem.
The unemployed are politically invisible. They don’t make major campaign donations. They don’t lobby Congress. There’s no National Association of Unemployed People.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Reich is simply another political operative. A true conservative will gladly do what it takes to fix the economy. A conservative simply won’t agree to fix the economy with what has injured it time and again: huge spending, huge taxation, huge regulation, and huge government intervention in private lives.
If that’s the prescription by the liberals, then this conservative won’t put a smiley face on “compromise” by sitting at such a table with other sell-outs.
Right. The Republicans took back the house in January, and all of this is their fault, including the failed “stimulus” that none of them voted for but this demented little dwarf’s DemocRat buddies rammed through anyway.
What’s worst is that 30% or so of the voting public thinks he’s right...
4 ft. 11 inches.
I didn’t know they stacked crap that high.
Robert Reichchchchchchch as Rush would say. Not a balanced article IMHO.
He's been talking to Mrs. Pivens.
4 feet, 5.11 inches or 4'-5" rounded off...that, is really short!
how about 15-20 % paycut for fed employees not in the military?
We're talking 15,000,000 jobs. See your party's Politician, ask him if an election placebo would be right for you. Green jobs, tax cuts and another small business pizza shop won't cut it.
Washington SHOULD be obsessed by the budget deficit. At the rate it’s going the government will be completely incapable of gather enough funds to run more than a third of itself in just a couple of decades. If we hit that day this recession is going to look like a national vacation. Increasing the deficit today to hire a few more people just brings crash day forward.
The USA is worse than broke, you little troll. We have no future because our lousy government has promised everyone a free ride on their free pony, and we have 70 TRILLION dollars in unfunded mandates that we will never be able to pay off. A baby born today owes over $50,000 of national debt. We can’t even pay the interest as it eats up our economy.
Reich’s obtuse comments prove that any idiot can teach at Harvard.
But all of them can walk into a booth a pull a lever for ABO—anybody but Obama.
Carville ... to Clinton: ‘I always ask the question: why does a dog lick his d**k? Because he can. Why don’t we balance the budget? Because we can’t.’”
- The Agenda, Bob Woodward, p. 21.
Same goes w/ jobs. Today’s Washington isn’t doing squat about jobs because it can’t.
Not true. Many Republicans are invested in the economy, and stand a lot to lose if the economy stays in the doldrums. What proof is there the Republicans want to take a stock market loss, lose business etc., crash the country's ecomomy just to get in the White House?
I know why. Look at any economic basket case in the world and notice the luxurious lifestyles of its political leaders. That’s why.
When it comes to economics the only person I disrespect as much as Paul Krugman it is his troll counterpart Robert Reich.When these two idiot savants start talking I stop listening.
Did they lose their right to vote when they lost their job?
Malignant little dwarf.
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