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Republican senators who took the floor during the week's debate on the
stimulus bill vented a near-hysterical opposition to any increase in
government spending to alleviate the impact of the economic crisis on
millions of working people. John McCain of Arizona, the defeated
Republican presidential candidate, spoke Friday to argue that the
private sector, not the federal government, should be the basis of
economic recovery. "It's the reason we don't have socialism in this
country," he declared.
McCain offered a substitute bill that would have eliminated every penny
of increased spending for unemployment compensation, health care and
cash support to near-bankrupt state governments, in favor of $445
billion in tax cuts, much of which would go to the wealthy. Another
right-wing Republican, James DeMint of South Carolina, proposed an
amendment that would extend indefinitely the 2001 Bush tax cuts for the
wealthy, now set to expire at the end of 2010.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/sena-f07.shtml
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