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[Which brings us to the obvious question: Who’s going to buy the stuff we make or the services we provide, and therefore bring jobs back? There’s only one buyer left: The government.

Let me say this as clearly and forcefully as I can: The federal government should be spending even more than it already is on roads and bridges and schools and parks and everything else we need. It should make up for cutbacks at the state level, and then some. This is the only way to put Americans back to work. We did it during the Depression. It was called the WPA. ]

Insanity. Absolute insanity of astronomical proportion.


19 posted on 10/03/2009 9:11:00 AM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: FastCoyote
Insanity. Absolute insanity of astronomical proportion.

This guy Robert Reich like Sen. Patrick Moynihan before him, seems to know what the problem is. Unfortunately like Moynihan, his proposal for the cure will not only NOT solve the problem but probably EXACERBATE it.
23 posted on 10/03/2009 9:14:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (wH)
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To: FastCoyote
The federal government should be spending even more than it already is on roads and bridges and schools and parks and everything else we need.

Why would we need roads and bridges? Cap and Tax will make it unaffordable to drive anywhere. We're supposed to live in communes supplied by locally produced goods and only the elite will be permitted to travel on junkets to global climate change conferences.

What are the schools for? Is everyone going to be educated so that they can graduate to unemployment? Who is going to buy what they're selling? Or maybe we just need more indoctrination centers to tell us how we need to live more sustainable lives.

I can see a use for parks. At least it will give a place for all of the homeless to sleep.

31 posted on 10/03/2009 9:24:36 AM PDT by seowulf (Petraeus, cross the Rubicon.)
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