(Whatever your view (I agree with Laura), I think this discussion deserves to be front and center. - promoted by Dean Barker)
And again I find myself reading a Paul Hodes press release and thinking, jaw agape, "seriously?"
"From the beginning, I have been opposed to the Wall Street bailouts. They have been ill-conceived and mismanaged, and must immediately end. It is time to put a permanent end to the Wall Street bailouts, and I believe that we must use these funds to pay down the national debt. Today's plan, while well intentioned, proposes spending the bailout funds - and I firmly believe this money must be used to reduce the national debt.
"Restoring the Granite State's economy is my single highest priority. Creating good-paying jobs, strengthening our state's small businesses, and helping those who are still suffering in this economy are goals which must be achieved in a fiscally responsible way."
Come again, now? Creating good-paying jobs is your highest priority...but you're putting it beneath the shortest possible view of "fiscal responsibility"? The one that prioritizes paying down a tiny fraction of the debt now over putting people to work and repairing our country's broken infrastructure?
Oh, and how many billions in defense appropriations have you voted for without invoking this kind of hackneyed rightwing crap? Do we only worry about the national debt when it's that vs. working families and non-crumbling bridges?
Creating jobs creates a revenue base. Voting against creating jobs, is voting against creating a revenue base -- at the same time you vote against putting food on the tables of working families.
Barack Obama:
"Now, if we can't grow our economy, then it is going to be that much harder for us to reduce the deficit. The single most important thing we could do right now for deficit reduction is to spark strong economic growth, which means that people who've got jobs are paying taxes, and businesses that are making profits have taxes, are paying taxes. That's the most important thing we can do. We understand that in this administration. [...]
Man, it's starting to look like Paul Hodes-the-Senate-candidate was the worst thing that ever happened to Paul Hodes-the-legislator. |
