In which case under a McCain Administration we might have had rioting in the streets over unemployment. Obama probably has been able to dampen things down just enough to preclude civil unrest, but not enough to really make things better for most people.
That also reminds me that I realized that the antiwar movement was dead, when back in 2004, I saw people that I knew, who been active in antiwar work, stumping for John Kerry (the man who says he had the idea of the "surge" before the Bushies had it). When I saw them starting to work for Kerry, I knew that it was over for the antiwar movement, which has not come back since then.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Tea-heads to swarm the Hill Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:25:38 -0500
On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:14 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote:
> And does anyone
> here think that the policies of
> a McCain administration would
> have been that much different
> from Obama's
The only difference, and it's not insignificant, is the StimPak. Without that, unemployment would be 12% or higher.
Doug
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