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In reply to the discussion: Sequestration playing havoc with lives of senior citizens. We must not excuse this. [View all]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)48. The process will only be "bloodless" for the rich I fear.
The words of Obama at the opening of the Hamilton project at the Brookings Institute.
There are real consequences to the work that is being done here
Bob and I have had a running debate now for about a year about how do we, in fact, deal with the losers in a globalized economy. There has been a tendency in the past for us to say, well, look, we have got to grow the pie, and we will retrain those who need retraining. But in fact we have never taken that side of the equation as seriously as we need to take it. So hopefully, this is not just going to be a lot of preaching to the choir. Hopefully, part of what we are going to be doing is challenging our own conventional wisdom and pushing boundaries and testing these ideas in a vigorous and aggressive way.
....Just remember, as we move forward, that there are real consequences to the work that is being done here. There are people in places like Decatur, Illinois, or Galesburg,Illinois, who have seen their jobs eliminated. They have lost their health care. They have lost their retirement security. They don't have a clear sense of how their children will succeed in the same way that they succeeded. They believe that this may be the first generation in which their children do worse than they do. Some of that, then, will end up manifesting itself in the sort of nativist sentiment, protectionism, and anti-immigration sentiment that we are debating here in Washington. So there are real consequences to the work that is being done here. This is not a bloodless process.
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Sequestration playing havoc with lives of senior citizens. We must not excuse this. [View all]
madfloridian
Apr 2013
OP
This is Austerity, the American version, after the disaster and destruction it has and is still
sabrina 1
Apr 2013
#66
Mindless, across-the-board and inflexible reductions in essential services.............
wandy
Apr 2013
#5
Yet senior are the voters who give us a Republican majority in the House. nt
geek tragedy
Apr 2013
#8
"Fucking retarded liberals," impoverished seniors with "heads up their asses."
woo me with science
Apr 2013
#37
More likely just another group of white people who have routinely voted against their interests
BeyondGeography
Apr 2013
#46
So what's your point? Let them starve? How cruel, how insensitive, how predictable. nm
rhett o rick
Apr 2013
#53
We needed the funds from the Bush tax cuts. Once the middle class decided they didn't want to pay..
dkf
Apr 2013
#20
obama should have learned by now that you can't make a deal with the Devil.
kelliekat44
Apr 2013
#25
Pres Obama is in the 1%. To hope those in the 1% will help the 99% is very wishful thinking. nm
rhett o rick
Apr 2013
#54