Putting America back together [Barf]

Guardian UK ^ | November 1, 2009 | Sasha Abramsky-Marx

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A year ago I argued that to repair America's ripped social fabric, Barack Obama had to move forward on healthcare, a higher minimum wage, imaginative ways to keep families in homes that were being foreclosed and investments in public works on a vast scale to stem the tide of unemployment that would inevitably follow a financial collapse. And that he had to juggle many of these reforms simultaneously.

Such transformations couldn't occur overnight, but the impetus for them had to come in the first months of the new administration – when Obama's popularity was high, when the calamitous malfunctioning in governance that the Bush administration embodied was still fresh in the public mind, when the economic situation remained so extraordinarily dire that people were willing to gamble on systemic changes that, in normal times, they would shy away from.

Well, on the plus side, healthcare reform is moving forward. On the plus side, too: hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus money are, like a life-saving saline drip, now coursing through the body-politic.

Also on the plus side: the American auto industry was salvaged in a manner that didn't entirely wreck the United Auto Workers' pensions and healthcare benefits. Green technology investments are being prioritised – witness the successful "cash for clunkers" programme, intended to stimulate auto sales while also taking gas-guzzlers off the road. And the rapacious credit card industry is being reformed in a way that will ultimately benefit millions of Americans.

[6SJ7]

“Sasha Abramsky-Marx”. Marx. That’s perfect!

[Berlin_Freeper]

meanwhile...

In what is being described as a “deliberate and sophisticated crime,” the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. says the careers section of its Web site was hacked, exposing sensitive data belonging to about half a million users.

[Daisyjane69]

Looks like I’m going to have to sign in on the Guardian page tomorrow.

sigh...

[bsf2009]

Reads like a high-school term paper. Then, so does most of the agitprop that comes out of the ministry of information.

"Well, on the plus side, healthcare reform is moving forward. On the plus side, too: hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus money are, like a life-saving saline drip, now coursing through the body-politic.

Also on the plus side: the American auto industry was salvaged in a manner that didn't entirely wreck the United Auto Workers' pensions and healthcare benefits. Green technology investments are being prioritised – witness the successful "cash for clunkers" programme, intended to stimulate auto sales while also taking gas-guzzlers off the road. And the rapacious credit card industry is being reformed in a way that will ultimately benefit millions of Americans."

[RoadTest]

“to repair America’s ripped social fabric, Barack Obama had to move forward “

He’s the one ripping it!

[SteamShovel]

to repair America's ripped social fabric

The left

.....rips America's social fabric apart

.....blames the right for the economic and social collapse

.....and then claims to be justified in putting it back together as a Utopian experiment.

I believe they will pay for this in the end...

[Deepest End]

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."

- Karl Marx

[SteamShovel]

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."

- Karl Marx

Of course the RATS have their own version.....

.....The meaning of compromise and bipartisanship is the total absence of conservative principles.

[Dr.Deth]

A little wordy... how about:

“The meaning of bipartisanship is the absence of opposition to Democrats.”

[SteamShovel]

Spot On!