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In reply to the discussion: Robert Reich tells Romney how to get to 4% unemployment... [View all]progressoid
(49,827 posts)39. I don't doubt he would.
But our side had ample opportunity to do something about it, and we didn't for a number of reasons. I'm not just singling out the White House, congress also did nothing.
I don't think the repugs' threats of filibuster or the President being hamstrung was as big an issue as everyone makes it out to be. Frankly, most in the DC (including our side) don't seem too interested in fighting for us.
It's election time so the rhetoric is again ramped up to woo voters. But once the elections are over, I ain't holding my breath waiting for them to follow through on their promises...
...fool me once, shame on shame on you. Fool me you can't get fooled again.
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Which one of the two has been talking up and trying to raise taxes on the wealthy?
bhikkhu
May 2012
#10
A "president romney" may do exactly what he says he will do, if given the chance
bhikkhu
May 2012
#28
Isn't raising taxes on the wealthy what Obama's been trying to do all this time
Jamaal510
May 2012
#12
Yes, that is/was the Alan Greenspan model for the economy in a nutshell.
Ruby the Liberal
May 2012
#33