From CNN:
President Obama's budget for 2012 takes a sharp knife to government spending, with proposed cuts that will reduce deficits by hundreds of billions of dollars over 10 years.At some point in the next month or two, as you walk or drive past a cemetery, you may hear the sound of howling. The howling you hear is not winter storms nor March gales. No, the howling you hear is not the wind.
The cuts hit far and wide: airports, heat subsidies for the poor, water treatment plants and Pell grants are just some of the targets.
What you are hearing is the howls of 100,000,000 ghosts: those Americans whose experience of the Great Depression and the New Deal was not in history books or revisionist screeds, but was real, firsthand, heartfelt and known to the very marrow of their bones in life. They are not just howling at the nihilism of the GOP; they always knew about that. They are howling at an Administration whose budget turns its back on the very lives of the neediest at their most desparate hour in seventy years even as it extended profligate tax cuts for the wealthy, and yet still calls itself "democratic."
They are howling in anger and disbelief at an American public which has scorned and forgotten the history that they actually lived. They are howling at you.
6 comments:
1937? I do hope this is some kind of 11 dimensional chess budget that my mere mortal mind can't grasp.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/143817-white-house-budget-chief-defends-heating-aid-cut-
Excuse me. According to Bonddad, we are having a splendid recovery, just as his charts predicted. The unemployed are just lots of retirees dropping out of the workforce. What are you complaining about?
Record numbers of food stamp recipients are just another lagging indicator. Just ask Bonddad's wealthy clients. Everything is just fine in America
Amen, NDd! That Democrats are not channeling the ghost of FDR is stupifying to me. One of the two greatest accomplishments of the Democratic Party in the 20th century (along with the success of World War II) was The New Deal. Why they actively ignore its lessons defies all explanation, save one: They have been deeply corrupted by a corporate takeover of the People's government, and Citizens United may well have cemented that new reality in place.
No its a budget that won't pass a GOP Congress, so is being put out for purely political reasons, Obama kows it won't pass, so he can make himself look more fiscally conservative, with no danger of it actually being implemented
Dear Spartacus --
We get it. You are a genius, who is on the side of the downtrodden and poor. If only we had listened to your prescient analysis, all bad things could be avoided, blue skies would reign forever and dogs and cats would stop living together.
We, on the other had, have been forever compromised by our Wall Street Masters and are only engaging in this activity to put the masses to sleep.
There -- you have your admission that you were always right and we were always wrong. Why don't you run back to the Kos and huddle with the pure at heart to claim victory.
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