Let them eat fiscal responsibility

[Hannah Bell]

SOME 15 million people are unemployed, according to official figures, and at least that many are involuntarily working part time because they can't find full-time work, or have dropped out of the workforce altogether in despair at ever finding a job...Obama and the Democrats passed one big economic stimulus package in their first months in power in 2009...But since then, the talk has turned steadily to austerity, austerity and more austerity. Obama himself promised a spending freeze at most government agencies--not the Pentagon, of course--for the next three years, and in June, White House budget officials ordered departments to cut 5 percent from their budgets...

UNFORTUNATELY, THE labor movement and liberal organizations have put up very little opposition to the Obama administration's many disappointments. But one positive sign for putting forward an alternative agenda is the plans for an October 2 national march in Washington, D.C...

In addition, the United Auto Workers and Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH are uniting for a campaign for jobs that will be kicked off at a march on August 28 in Detroit, on the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Detroit was the site of the "Freedom Walk," a march of 125,000 that King led several months before the March on Washington...

History tells us that the most important social changes--reforms that improved the lives of working people and expanded democracy and freedom--didn't come about because of proposals in Washington, but because working people organized and struggled for them.

http://socialistworker.org/2010/07/28/let-them-eat-fiscal-responsibility

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[lib2DaBone]

2. Kick. Sadly, with most of the Unions gone..Workers no longer have a voice...

We have to take whatever the wealthy dish out.

Mr. Obama tried to pass a small business spending bill, but the Republicans filibustered it. (It wasn't the entire answer but it would have created some jobs)

The Republicans are going to keep Americans as miserable as possible until the November elections..."The Party Of No"..... we are going to have a very bleak Christmas in this country.