Too Little Too Late?
The Obama Administration has finally announced a bit of sane news regarding the economy. As I see it, applying $50 billion towards infrastructure projects (ala FDR) is a step in the right direction. Creating jobs has always been one of the only ways we’re going to escape the gravity of a now obvious ( at least in my mind) depression. Add to that the fact that our roads, bridges and countless other mainstays of American life are in bad need of an overhaul, and on the surface, this makes sense. Ahhh, but there’s always a hurdle, isn’t there? What about the already insurmountable deficit we’re facing? Republicans (and a good many Dems facing re-election shortly) aren’t likely to hop on this bandwagon. I give this long overdue idea a 50-50 chance of passing at best. There’s just no stomach for more debt, whether right or wrong. As we skate along on the knife’s edge of a public acknowledgement that we’ve never left the recession in the first place, I have to imagine that the current administration is starting to sweat heavily. We’re in for a bumpy road this fall, as that awakening comes closer and closer.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-labor-day-agenda-job-growth-ideas/story?id=11554930
September 28, 2010 at 3:20 pm
It’s time for the hoi polloi to acknowledge that there political system is corrupt, debased and full of shit-heads that need copious amounts of funds to get re-elected so they can continue to be whores to corporate and military buck-makers. Hell, I’ve talked to fellow workers and friends that are clue-less as to how rotten and whored out the political system has become. My response: buy a six-pack, microwave popcorn, kick back, and watch the whole stinking mess implode. Why not do something about it? Because I’m smart enough to know it’s a losers game when the hoi polloi riot and the weapons used to kill others are turned on the American people themselves. You’re fucked America. Accept it. The least you can do is get out of the perpetual state of denial you’ve been in since Vietnam.