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

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 29 12:31:47 PDT 2010


On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> the administration predicted 8% unemployment but it's
> > settled a bit under 10%; piddling tax cuts and one-time payments for
> > most people; tax credits (e.g., college tuition) that are useless for
> > many; long-term unemployment is still a huge problem; etc. If this is
> > the result of stimulus, then it's really not hard to see why people
> > are against it.

You're saying that it makes sense people are against it because they think it wasn't big enough? What's the evidence for that?

As Doug's said a few times, if it wasn't for the stimulus people would be wearing barrels. Instead of acknowledging that, they're back to blaming government and for the same old bad reasons.



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