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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (213601)1/2/2013 2:14:09 PM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (1) of 541692
 
— even though going over the fiscal cliff was not at all a drop-dead moment, since we could have gone weeks or months without much real economic damage.

I think Obama is much less sanguine about this assessment of the damage

I honestly believe that this is a man whose character will not allow him to tolerate damage to any group that he can avoid

"Real economic damage" is a relative term

If you and your children rely on unemployment compensation for groceries, rent, transportation and medicine, the Fiscal Cliff represented real economic damage to you

...and failure to allow passage of policies to advance fuller employment means there are millions of Americans in this predicament

So I guess the take away is don't elect someone who will cave on your priorities in favor of folks whose priorities are desperate

I'd rather we do a better job of simply eliminating the Republican Party

"As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead."

H P Lovecraft ca 1936
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