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Remember, this argument really isn’t about the nuts and bolts of the deal. It’s about a Democratic president cutting spending in the middle of a depression:
WASHINGTON — The nation’s political leaders agreed on Sunday to spend and invest less money in the American economy, a step that economists said risks the reversal of a faltering recovery, in the hope of improving the nation’s long-term prosperity.
The emerging outlines of a deal to cut spending by at least $2.4 trillion over 10 years, with a multibillion-dollar down payment later this year, would complete an about-face in the federal government’s role from outsize spending in the immediate aftermath of the recession to outsize cuts in the future.
Last week brought the disconcerting news that the economy grew no faster than the population during the first six months of the year, in part because of spending cuts by state and local governments. Now the federal government is cutting, too.
“Unemployment will be higher than it would have been otherwise,” Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of the bond investment firm Pimco, said Sunday on ABC. “Growth will be lower than it would be otherwise. And inequality will be worse than it would be otherwise.”
He added, “We have a very weak economy, so withdrawing more spending at this stage will make it even weaker.”
2:55 pm
When I saw this this morning, I said to my spouse, “Nice timing for this to appear on page 1.” Dayathink?
7:40 pm
Obama’s Inner Republican WANTS Cheap Labor and for us annoying little people to Hurry Up and Die.
7:57 pm
It was the plan all along. Elect a Quisling and turn America into a banana republic. Democracy is dead. Long live the Plutocracy.
8:42 pm
Well, how else are we going to compete with China if Americans won’t learn to live on $1.50 a day?