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In addition, out-of-control war spending and bailouts applied productively would make austerity cuts unnecessary.
"Who's going to pay the next $4 trillion (and more trillions after that)....is the central issue," according to ruling elites?
"It's not jobs (not created), foreclosures, broke states and cities, students indentured for life, or seniors struggling to stay alive."
At a time stimulus is needed to revive productive growth, infighting focuses on what more to cut, hitting working households, the poor, retirees and disabled hardest.
Notably, 25 million Americans wanting jobs have none. Nothing is being done to create them.
Instead, proposals focus on tax cuts for the rich, corporate handouts, and austerity to pay for them.
Welcome to America.
Obama's America.
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