[lbo-talk] European cities hit by anti-austerity protests(correction)

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Wed Sep 29 12:06:23 PDT 2010


Eric Beck writes:


> it's not totally ridiculous for US workers to be critical
> of actually existing stimulus packages: the administration
> predicted 8% unemployment but it's settled a bit under 10%;

Right, which means it would have been 12% without the stimulus, and could have been 8 had they actually gotten everything they asked for (or more).


> If this is the result of stimulus, then it's really not
> hard to see why people are against it.

Unless of course they let someone else do their thinking about it.

/jordan



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