[lbo-talk] Newsweek Poll: 57 percent say government spending on jobs should be top priority

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sat Sep 4 06:34:34 PDT 2010


On Sep 4, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


>
> On Sep 4, 2010, at 5:00 AM, CGreen7223 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> 57 percent say federal government spending to create jobs should be
>> top
>> priority, while 37 percent say deficit reduction should be top
>> priority. And
>> yet the top priority of the politicians is to slash medicare and
>> social
>> security.
>
> And they're likely to vote in large numbers for people who'll do the
> opposite. Go figure.

Actually they're likely to vote (with their feet) in large numbers against those who promised government spending to create jobs in the present and then refused to enact any program that would do so because they became terrified by a scarecrow, future deficits.

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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