Obama's Allegedly "New" Centrism
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/11-11
Memo to Obama: How to Convert to A Peace Economy
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/11-3
Obama's Stimulus Money Must NOT Be Wasted on Nuke Reactors
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/10-0
Obama and NAFTA
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/10-8
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The Stimulus
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the nation's roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools... But if there aren't enough skilled professionals to do the jobs involving new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the wages of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most - women, minorities, and the poor and long-term unemployed - will be shut out."
https://www.truthout.org/011109Y
Mythbusting the Obama Recovery Package
Sara Robinson, The Campaign For America's Future: "Here it is: our moment of economic truth. We're standing at that historic fork in the road where the nation decides, now and for the foreseeable future, whether it's going to hang on to the catastrophic assumptions of the free-market fundamentalists and rely once more on the nostrums that have so far failed to fix the mess, or take a bold step down a new, more progressive path that will finally re-empower the American people to build an economy that works for us all."
https://www.truthout.org/011109E
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Government can’t really stimulate the economy
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman
01/09/09
The money sluices are about to open wide on Capitol Hill. With a new Congress convened and a new president about to take office, we are likely to see record-shattering government expenditures. All inhibitions about deficit spending, as weak as they have been in recent years, are now dissolved. The motto among those in control is: Spend now!
https://www.fff.org/comment/com0901d.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=centrism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit+spending
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemployed
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deepak+Chopra
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laura+Carlsen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sara+Robinson
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
Memo to Obama: How to Convert to A Peace Economy
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/11-3
Obama's Stimulus Money Must NOT Be Wasted on Nuke Reactors
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/10-0
Obama and NAFTA
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/10-8
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The Stimulus
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The stimulus plan will create jobs repairing and upgrading the nation's roads, bridges, ports, levees, water and sewage system, public-transit systems, electricity grid, and schools... But if there aren't enough skilled professionals to do the jobs involving new technologies, the stimulus will just increase the wages of the professionals who already have the right skills rather than generate many new jobs in these fields. And if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most - women, minorities, and the poor and long-term unemployed - will be shut out."
https://www.truthout.org/011109Y
Mythbusting the Obama Recovery Package
Sara Robinson, The Campaign For America's Future: "Here it is: our moment of economic truth. We're standing at that historic fork in the road where the nation decides, now and for the foreseeable future, whether it's going to hang on to the catastrophic assumptions of the free-market fundamentalists and rely once more on the nostrums that have so far failed to fix the mess, or take a bold step down a new, more progressive path that will finally re-empower the American people to build an economy that works for us all."
https://www.truthout.org/011109E
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Government can’t really stimulate the economy
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman
01/09/09
The money sluices are about to open wide on Capitol Hill. With a new Congress convened and a new president about to take office, we are likely to see record-shattering government expenditures. All inhibitions about deficit spending, as weak as they have been in recent years, are now dissolved. The motto among those in control is: Spend now!
https://www.fff.org/comment/com0901d.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=centrism
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deficit+spending
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NAFTA
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemployed
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Deepak+Chopra
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harvey+Wasserman
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laura+Carlsen
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sara+Robinson
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
rudkla - 11. Jan, 22:22
