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America's Front Page
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As for the future, one has to be completely ignorant of how big money
works in this country to believe that there will ever be decent jobs
in these communities again. President Obama’s Labor Day proposal  to
invest $50 billion to create jobs improving roads, rail lines, and
airports sounds good, but I’d be surprised if it actually comes to
pass. A political class whose ambition currently is to find ways to
screw American workers out of their pensions, unemployment insurance,
and Social Security, while persuading them that the pointless wars on
which they have wasted $3 trillion so far have nothing to do with our
national economic problems, is not about to come to their aid.

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by Charles Simic, September 15, 2010

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/15/americas-front-page/