Repub defense budget cutters

[WIDEye]

> Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> >Here's an unappealing choice for you.  Suppose the
> >market tanks and unemployment goes up to nine percent.
> >Would you reject a defense bill that reduced UE by
> >several million people, in favor of fiscal austerity?
> >You can say there are better alternatives, and of
> >course there are, but they are not always available.
>
> Talk about crackpot realism. So you're saying we should build weapons
> because they're the only politically possible form of public
> spending? Forget schools, healthcare, environmental repair and just
> feed the death machine? Really Max, you should get out of the Beltway
> more often. If this is the state of American social democracy, then
> we're in even worse shape than I feared.
>
> This is lesser evilism taken to homicidal extremes. A few months ago,
> it was either run up big surpluses or privatize Social Security. Now
> you're offering the choice between idleness and death. The point
> should be to challenge these awful choices our rulers present us
> with, not trying to figure out which is the slightly less bad option.
>
> Doug
>
THANKS FOR THAT DOUG.  i thought i heard of some politico talking about a
massive US investment in environmental restoration.  does anyone know who
that was?

i kind of see it like a new deal (in some ways in reverse of the WPA)
providing jobs at livable wages, while restoring the natural systems that
are the foundation of our economy.

if it wasnt a politico that proposed this, who did?

alex