Re: Working like dogs (was Job flight)

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max B. Sawicky wrote:

> My gripe about this teensy memo is that 4.1 is couched in
> terms of being a structural goal requiring supply-side
> improvements in the tax code, rather than something accessible
> with fiscal policy.  Not coincidentally, Kerry has no fiscal
> policy and is mouthing anti-deficit rhetoric.
>
> I really don't look forward to spending the rest of what
> passes for my professional life doing shovel-duty behind
> the Clinton/Rubin circus elephants in the DP parade.

Max, Clinton brought the federal budget into surplus, and
unemployment hit a generation low. Doesn't that make it harder to
argue that the two goals are incompatible?

Doug