Posted on 02/26/2013 9:51:27 PM PST by blam
REICH: Obama Needs To Confront The GOP's Bald-Faced Lies
Robert Reich, Contributor
February 26, 2013, 7:20 PM
Pete Souza (Official White House Photograph)
The White House apparently believes the best way to strengthen its hand in the upcoming “sequester” showdown with Republicans is to tell Americans how awful the spending cuts will be, and blame Republicans for them.
It won’t work. These tactical messages are getting in the way of the larger truth, which the President must hammer home: The Republicans’ austerity economics and trickle-down economics are dangerous, bald-faced lies.
Yes, the pending spending cuts will hurt. But even if some Americans begin to feel the pain when the cuts go into effect Friday, most won’t feel it for weeks or months, if ever.
Half are cuts in the military, which will have a huge impact on jobs (the military is America’s only major jobs program), but the cuts will be felt mainly in states with large numbers of military contractors, and then only as those contractors shed employees.
The other half are cuts in domestic discretionary spending, which will largely affect lower-income Americans. There will be sharp reductions in federal aid to poor schools, nutrition assistance, housing assistance, and the like. But here again, most Americans won’t see these cuts or feel them.
Moreover, the blame game can be played both ways, and Republicans are adept at slinging mud. When it comes to high-visibility consequences of the spending cuts — such as a sudden dearth of air-traffic controllers — Republicans will dodge blame by happily giving Obama authority to shift spending and find the cuts himself, thereby making the White House appear even more culpable.
Besides, there’s no end to this. After Friday’s sequester comes the showdown over continuing funding of
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Reish sounds worried. He doesn’t think this is going to work out well for Obama and his boyz.
Reish sounds worried. He doesn’t think this is going to work out well for Obama and his boyz.
This schmuck was a “Secretary of Labor” and is now a college professor? No wonder he’s a marxist fraud economist.
I guess he got his PhD at the University of Haiti’s School of Voodoo Economics.
Stick a pin in it Robert. You’re still stuck on stupid.
All this over a small cut to the projected increases??? Spending will still increase!
Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life on this planet!
Heh, the stench of a sweating communist Democrat fills the air.
lol
Reich STILL believes communism can work, if only it is given just one more chance.
Bob, you simply cannot confiscate the fruits of one man’s labor and hand it over to somebody to whom it does not belong and who did nothing to earn it.
Period.
Robert Reich is campaigning for Obama down in Texas, and buys himself a pair of expensive cowboy boots to try to fit in. After a few days, of campaigning, he has such bad scrotal pain that he has to see a doctor.
As he explains the pain to the doctor, and describes how it seemed to start when he came to Texas, the doctor calmly says “I am going to fix that for you right now” leaves the room and returns with a large pair of scissors.
Reich jumps up and runs to the door yelling “You’re not cutting MY balls off!”
The doctor calls after him “Wait! I was just going to cut the tops off of your cowboy boots!”
how awful the spending cuts
pain when the cuts go into effect
spending cuts will hurt
cuts in the military
the cuts will be felt
contractors shed employees
cuts in domestic discretionary spending
sharp reductions in federal aid
consequences of the spending cuts
THERE ARE NO CUTS! EVERYONE STILL GETS MORE THAN LAST YEAR!!!!
Ok Dwarf,Im still waiting for my 2500 dollar reduction in my Health care premium,I have seen my premium increase 3000 dollars. Keep your doctor,keep your policy? Right,taxes not going to increase one dime? Right. Going to cut the debt in half during first term? Right.Close Gitmo? Right.The Most Transparent Administration In History?Right. I Obama do not support Gay Marriage? Right. We dont need more Navy ships,after all we dont use swords and Horses anymore either,but the Sequester is going to stop the building of more ships?Right. Your Agriculture Secretary says we are going to cut thinning of the Forests to prevent Fires,But will not cut the 2 billion dollars providing free cell phones where 41 percent of the receipients are not eligible,10s of billions paid out to Black farmers in the Pigford case,where New Yorkers who grow tomato plants in the windows are farmers and get 50 thousand dollar checks,now expanding to women and Hispanics? Right.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
I think Obama would be content to stay in the White House more as long as he can keep Michelle flying and away from him.
The face of pure evil.
Is this the one and only Robert B Reiiiccchhhhhh Rush used to talk about?
apparently, the little guy is still around
5.56mm
Hey Reich!
You Lie!
THERE ARE NO CUTS!
(only reductions in the rate of growth)
John Maynard Keynes ruined humanity for ever.
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