10 Ways Right-Wingers Will Try to Wreck Any Economic Recovery

[butterfly77]

http://www.alternet.org/story/149333/10_ways_right-wingers_will_try_to_wreck_any_economic_recovery



1. Repeal of Health-Care Reform

Republicans have placed "repealing Obamacare" at the top of their legislative agenda for 2011. If they succeed, the economy is going to come down with multiple serious illnesses—at least 24, according to a report released this month by Rep. Peter Stark of the House Ways and Means Committee.

2. Diminish the Federal Government's Ability to Support Job-Creation

Conservatives are poised to execute a strikingly broad assault against federal spending, particularly programs that help jump-start and steer the nation's job-creation engine. It includes the expected targets—such proven programs as Community Development Block Grants—as well as some new ones, such as the Small Business Administration (there goes all that Republican fealty to "small business") and even the requirement that the Federal Reserve take emplo


3. Slash Federal Infrastructure Spending

The departing chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep. James Oberstar, offered some rare frank talk earlier this year when he said the country's transportation network "was once the envy of the

[WCGreen]

1. Even the right leaning History Channel had a two hour special called The Crumbling

of America...

The infrastructure of this country is such a sorry state that people are at risk every time they take to the road and cross a bridge that has seen only patchwork repairs...

And yet the cry goes up to privatize the highway system. What does that actually mean? Toll roads every where with profit being the driving factor? We know what happens when profit replaces principles?

[butterfly77]

4. Why doesn't anyone ever...

bring up the bridge that fell down in Minnesota,and why do they think Pawlenty would be a good President?

[old mark]

2. They will spend the congresses time and effort playing GOP Politics as usual ---

investigations and smears to tie up the President and Democrats. They will also try to dismantle any healthcare reform and every social program we have in the US while trying to cot taxes for the rich under the guise of growing jobs...they will be trickling down all over us.

Chris Matthews will be amused, Pat Buchannan will be happy.

mark

[butterfly77]

3. These are suppose to be..

the voices of reasons. We know that Buchanan is nothing but a racist and Chris Matthews loves to keep the bullshit going by saying why doesn't the President show a birth certificate when he has and the birth announcements in the paper should be enough. Matthews just wants ratings.

[old mark]

5. If they are the voices of reason, we are in deep shit.....nt

[butterfly77]

6. We are...

I can't wait to see who the new voices of so called reason will be for the new year. I see black republiCONS are now in style. I think there was a new on on meet the press this morning. I didn't get to see his label..

[old mark]

7. I was just reading about emigrating to Costa Rica...It sounds pretty good,

actually...seems like what I always wanted it to be like here.

Mark