Re: [Pen-l] Dean Baker: Getting the most bang for the stimulus buck

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sandwichman wrote:
> I posted this idea to the Obama transition website and almost
> instantly (3 minutes) received the following reply from a commentator:
>
> "This is entirely going in the wrong direction.  We have just seen $10
> trillion of value evaporate.  We need to regenerate that value as fast
> as possible and that means more hard work not less."

Shane Mage wrote:
> "evaporate?" That "value" obviously never existed in reality, only on paper.
>  And now  Obamists want to reinvent it by somehow forcing every  American
> worker, already the most overworked in the Western world, to undergo even
> worse exploitation.  Will the Obamapologist on this list react
> appropriately--or hail this new
> example of Progressive Black Stakhanovism?

I don't think we should assume that the person who responded to
Sandwichman is an "Obamist" or an "Obamapologist" or progressive. It's
an open discussion.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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