On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 4, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
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>> 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.
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> They were wussy about it, but there's no doubt that ARRA spent a lot
> of money and preserved millions of jobs that would have otherwise
> disappeared. Latest CBO estimates:
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> http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11706.
And yet the number of unemployed workers today is bigger than the number that Obama claimed would be unemployed *without* his ARRA. When that 57% support "government spending to create jobs" and no jobs are created, they aren't likely to be fobbed off by "it would be even worse without us," are they?
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