Friday, February 8, 2008

The economic package to save the US economy

Congress which usually moves with the pace of a snail, quickly voted the us$168bn injection of vitamin B money to boost the sagging US economy. Mini mouse Bush will sign the bill for it is more or less everything he wanted to rescue his class, his cronies, and the corporations. So concerned are the Congress and Herr Bush that they neglected [of course, there was a fight to bring relief to working poor and floundering middle class, but the reactionary Republicans and their Democratic allies put the kabosch on any amendment to 'water down' the bill] aid and succor for the growing army of the unemployed, food stamps for the growing number of Americans, adult and child, who go to bed hungry at night or spend life on the street or in the mean rooms of temporary shelters. It is an anarchonism to repeat that America has shift to the right and more. The free marketers rule the roost even though what they put on our economic has failed time and time again. Without strong protest from below and a movement to throw the bums out, 18Brumaire fears that the appeal to patriotism--the refuge of fools to quote Samuel Johnson--and the beating of war drums and the demoralising effects of poverty and impoverishment, the US may very well have McCain as president, a warmonger of the first water and a darling of the neo cons, or Obama whose economic advisors are on the right and are cheerleaders for free markets and will be more to the right then any of his supporters suspect who will become the cat's paw of the Pentagon and Wall Street.

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