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Title: Get ready to pay dearly for the ‘deal’ (can you believe this was written by an adult?)
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Buffalo News, (a.k.a. Lake Erie Pravda)
URL Source: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/columns/rod-watson/article511557.ece
Published: Aug 4, 2011
Author: Rod Watson
Post Date: 2011-08-05 09:27:04 by Get Outta Dodge!
Keywords: None
Views: 136445
Comments: 205
First “they came for the socialists. . . .” And they got them . . . and the progressives, and the moderates, and the entire middle and working classes, not to mention the economy itself. They got them all. While Pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous quote referred to the Nazis, it could just as easily be applied to the tea party extremists who rolled President Obama and Democrats in a “deal” that will have dire consequences for a poor, job-hungry city such as Buffalo. Obama broke a cardinal rule of presidents: Never negotiate with terrorists. But using the word “negotiate” may be giving this White House too much credit. Afraid that a small band of tea party radicals would blow up the economy, feckless Democrats who have no idea how to craft a message simply caved instead of getting out front in the debate. Who’ll pay for their timidity? You will, if you need help with your heating bill, want Western New York’s transportation network maintained, or don’t want education on the chopping block. Buffalo Niagara gets millions in everything from transit aid to block grants for economic development. All such programs face added jeopardy because the president went back on his vow to demand the balanced approach of cuts and revenues that polls show most Americans want. It’s one thing not to be able to lead people where they don’t want to go. It’s quite another not to be able to lead them in the direction they’re already pointing. Instead, this deal—composed entirely ofcuts— will hurt older, poorer cities such as Buffalo and slow economic growth even more while doing nothing to create jobs. In fact, it will cost jobs. The Economic Policy Institute says the plan’s failure to extend emergency unemployment benefits and the payroll tax holiday—the one tax cut that should have been included— will lower the GDP by a combined 1.2 percent and cost 1.5 million jobs next year. Try telling the 7.7 percent of Western New Yorkers—and 10.2 percent of Buffalonians— who are looking for work that this makes sense. And now that they’ve tasted blood— yours, if you’re not wealthy—the extremists will be back for more. With plans to stack the new “supercommittee” with members opposed to raising revenue, it’s possible the right wing will even sacrifice defense by triggering the $1.2 trillion in across-the-board cuts that result absent any other deal. In other words, the damage has only begun as we transition to government by minority rule. At a time when the economy needs to be juiced, Washington will be run by those who drank the Kool-Aid. And where were Chuck “Press Re-lease a Day” Schumer or other Democratic leaders—including the president —who could counter the right-wing nonsense machine and put so much heat on the non-crazy part of the GOP that the debate never would have come to this? Obama’s somnolent “let your member of Congress know” had some last-minute effect. But imagine how a real leader—say, a progressive equivalent of Ronald Reagan—would have taken control of this debate upfront. But the outcome shouldn’t surprise. Obama took single-payer off the table before health care talks even began, and this time, he nixed the 14th Amendment option even quicker. If you’re looking to score on a used-car deal, this is the guy you want to negotiate with. In the meantime, optimists think we’ll now have a grand debate about the role of government as the rest of the deal is hashed out before the 2012 election. But that would require forceful leadership with the stomach for that debate. Unfortunately for poor cities such as Buffalo, what we have instead are Obama and Harry Reid. Poster Comment: Ohhhhhhhhhh . . . Tea Partiers are Nazis. How original. Can you believe this guy writes for a metropolitan daily? (Yeah, I guess I can.)
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#2. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#0)
Absolutely. He's a fine member of the US Government's Dept of Propaganda.
Absolutely. He's a fine member of the US Government's Dept of Propaganda. Newspapers such as this one illustrate the problem we have, and perhaps why it is insurmountable short of absolute economic calamity. Though its readership is down, it still apparently makes enough money to stay in business. Which means it has SOME readership One has to assume those readers also vote. Therin lies the problem
That comment does kinda has a 1930s Germany ambiance to it. Maybe the tea-party /Nazi analogy has more going for it than I thought...
No evidence of that. Faux news Check Looks like your mindless drone points are in order. Check in with skip and he'll give you your uniform
Faux news Check Teabagger Check Looks like your mindless drone points are in order. Check in with skip and he'll give you your uniform Why do you hate forum discussion and the First Amendment so much that you feel compelled to interfere and distract with another of your mindless quibs?. You too, have been called on to back up your distractions and have been proven to be another empty suit.
Speaking of suits, hey, you and your "friend" are looking fine here...thanks for the autograph. That said, nobody's stopping you from howling at the moon here, are they?
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestCan you believe this guy writes for a metropolitan daily?
#9. To: We The People (#2)
Can you believe this guy writes for a metropolitan daily?
#14. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#9)
Newspapers such as this one illustrate the problem we have, and perhaps why it is insurmountable short of absolute economic calamity.
#22. To: Thunderbird, Skip intro and go directly do democrat talking points (#14)
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I thought...
Teabagger Check
#23. To: Get Outta Dodge!, Thunderbird, Skip Intro (#22)
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No evidence of that.
#61. To: mininggold, Get Outta Dodge! (#23)
Why do you hate forum discussion and the First Amendment so much that you feel compelled to interfere and distract with another of your mindless quibs?. You too, have been called on to back up your distractions and have been proven to be another empty suit.
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