On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, c b <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/10/27/barack_obama_wall_street > > Even if the untainted economists had been in the Obama administration > and doubled the stimulus , somehow over the whooping and hollering > filibustering, crazed Republicans and Tea Partiers , no economist can > guarantee that unemployment wouldn't be at unacceptable levels. The > economic science is not that sharp as to say that with certainty. >
This is true but misses the point. A larger stimulus may not cure everything but it is better than a smaller one. The point is Obama didn't even try. Just like he didn't even try to rein in the financiers. (Hell, even George Bush put Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling in jail!) Just like he didn't even try to have a "public option" healthcare. It is impossible to avoid the conclusion: Obama simply doesn't care. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
