np America's Front Page

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 10:22:24 CDT 2010


Well said, and true.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> America's Front Page
> (...)
>
> 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.
>
> (...)
>
> by Charles Simic, September 15, 2010
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/sep/15/americas-front-page/
>



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