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In reply to the discussion: If You Think Progressives Won't Compromise w/ Centrists, You Have It Backwards. Liberals are begging [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)The obstructionists made noise about the original proposal, and got it reduced appreciably.
There is no doubt who is causing the problem, who is balking the passage of legislation that is popular with the people and needed by the country.
Your point about duration opens another line, namely that the entire '3.5 trillion dollars' is allocated over ten years, and so is actually about three hundred fifty billions a year. Which is less than half the annual defense budget. Pretending this isa great, unprecedented, crippling expense, is ludicrous. But there's really not much besides that serves as the basis for 'moderate' objections, though of course they want the cuts to come from things their donors do not approve of, or that they think they can smear as 'welfare for lazy moms and unemployed people' or 'pie in the sky climate nonesense'.
"This pretense of not knowing what any fool knows has come to dominate our political discourse."