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In reply to the discussion: What's with the no New Deal? [View all]DCBob
(24,689 posts)24. Yes. The Republicans will frame it as a huge wasteful Big Gov program.
They will say Obama wants to spend enourmous amounts of taxpayer money just to generate a limited number of "non-productive" jobs just to gain some votes. They will come up with some crazy number like we are spending $250,000 per job and that is was the media will focus on.
Its futile as long as the Rethugs control the House and the media.
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Every attempt to do such at the beginning of Obama's administration was shut down. And the Governor
freshwest
Jun 2012
#1
Somehow you missed those years. I saw it as it unfolded and posted then. Briefly:
freshwest
Jun 2012
#20
There is a standing Executive Order banning WPA type programs signed by Reagan
TheKentuckian
Jun 2012
#56
Of course they don't have to fund it but you are arguing they were "fought for"
TheKentuckian
Jun 2012
#62
This is whatever USA we determine to make it. If the President tried some of these things,
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#26
No, it's his fault when he ignores people like Dr.'s Krugman and Stiglitz for years.
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#42
TY. Funny how these fools never seem to have an answer to these very basic principles.
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#51
Do you honesty think a "New Deal" WPA-like program could be passed in either chamber??
DCBob
Jun 2012
#3
I also will say your realistic tends away from effective and broadly beneficial
TheKentuckian
Jun 2012
#59
They can only be blamed for obstruction when they have an opportunity to do so
TheKentuckian
Jun 2012
#12
About 1,000,000 people visit Boulder (Hoover) Dam every year. It is one of the Wonders of the World.
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#33