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Showing posts with label Stimulus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stimulus. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Selling the Stimulus
A collection of three videos:
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Obama always speaks well. He shows that yet again. Some of it is overly simplified and therefore ambiguous. But I hear him saying "...from the bottom up" and I just have to smile.
Maddow is deeply intelligent as always. She dogs her subject and never veers off course while continually appearing to be the very soul of congeniality. Ultimately, she is wickedly cruel - but so charming that it cannot possibly be held against her.
William Greider does a good job of telling it like it is. Obama and the Dems must make a true choice. I have heard that Obama owes much to individual contributions of mere dollars and that he therefore owes far less to the usual lobbying interests that normally own politicians. The question is quite simple: who does Obama serve? He cannot have two masters.
Has Obama chosen to go down in history as the man that turned it around or will he stay pat at the mere color of his skin?
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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Obama always speaks well. He shows that yet again. Some of it is overly simplified and therefore ambiguous. But I hear him saying "...from the bottom up" and I just have to smile.
Maddow is deeply intelligent as always. She dogs her subject and never veers off course while continually appearing to be the very soul of congeniality. Ultimately, she is wickedly cruel - but so charming that it cannot possibly be held against her.
William Greider does a good job of telling it like it is. Obama and the Dems must make a true choice. I have heard that Obama owes much to individual contributions of mere dollars and that he therefore owes far less to the usual lobbying interests that normally own politicians. The question is quite simple: who does Obama serve? He cannot have two masters.
Has Obama chosen to go down in history as the man that turned it around or will he stay pat at the mere color of his skin?
Friday, February 6, 2009
Obama: Spending is the Point!
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I guess we should just cut taxes for the elites because that has always worked so brilliantly before...
I will be so happy when the people that support the GOP either drop fucking dead or learn about real life economics. It is very easy in this great country to think yourself a genius when all you really are is a lucky bastard that made a few right moves. People are sometimes made billionaires almost purely on the basis of greed and one lucky moment of opportunity. I'm not saying they weren't prepared to take full advantage of that moment with their own skills and intellect, but luck remains an enormous factor.
The wheel of fortune plays everyone for a fool in the end. History tells us so.
"The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." - Ernest hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Friday, January 16, 2009
Too Little Too Slowly...
Will the Economic Stimulus Be Too Compromised to Work?
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/120253/will_the_economic_stimulus_be_too_compromised_to_work/?page=entire
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Really good points in that article. It's still moving far too slowly and involves too few dollars. Let's not argue about the value of fiat currency and keep things narrowed to only what it will take to prop up the lower and middle classes.
See below for job creations tips, the implementation of universal healthcare, how banks should be nationalized instead of handed bailouts, etc. Personally, I am very tired of too big to fail excuses. Why should a schoolteacher's taxes be going to cover for the foolishness of the people that are in charge of our biggest financial institutions?
It's still a clusterfuck. Big time.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/120253/will_the_economic_stimulus_be_too_compromised_to_work/?page=entire
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Really good points in that article. It's still moving far too slowly and involves too few dollars. Let's not argue about the value of fiat currency and keep things narrowed to only what it will take to prop up the lower and middle classes.
See below for job creations tips, the implementation of universal healthcare, how banks should be nationalized instead of handed bailouts, etc. Personally, I am very tired of too big to fail excuses. Why should a schoolteacher's taxes be going to cover for the foolishness of the people that are in charge of our biggest financial institutions?
It's still a clusterfuck. Big time.
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