Cutting off our noses….

The shift toward deficit reduction is a dangerous one, given the unsettled foundation on which this less-than-modest recovery is built. We need more stimulus to pump more cash into the economy and create jobs, not cuts that will lead to a reduction in government payrolls and an end to programs designed to help the folks hit hard by the downturn.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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  1. >We need more stimulus to pump more cash into the economy and create jobsSorry, but it's all a paper illusion. There's no real wealth to pay for all this gooferment spending. Sorry, just as there are no honest politicians, there is NO tooth fairy that is going to wave her magic wand an make it all better.We have to face the truth (thinking back to a Few Good Men) and I think we can handle it. The Gooferment can no more spend us back into prosperity than they can do ANYTHING they intend to do. The Law of Unintended Consequences will always bite them in the ass.Spend money, inflate currency, punish those on fixed incomes.Outlaw drugs, imprison large numbers of harmless people, destroy the black communities.Establish Federal Education Department, education goes down the tubes.Establish Homeland Security and six year olds get put on a no fly list and can't get off.Elect a \”peace president\”, as opposed to Ron Paul, and now you are still in 'stan (Af, Pak, Uzziewhatehellostand) until the next millenium. Prez bows to every tin pot dictator, and the world hates us.Prez kicks ass at BP, and the oil keeps spilling. How about letting others help? No, we have to keep the Jones Act in play to make the unions happy.Cut the welfare. Cut the warfare.1. End the personal and corporate dole; 2. Dismiss gooferment public education; 3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic; 4. Repatriate the troops home; 5. Downsize ALL gooferments; 6. Eliminate all taxes but tariffs and excise.Then get out of the way and let people help people. Not enrich the politicians, bureaucrats, and those that feed at the public trough. Err I mean treasury.We're broke. We have to change. We can't go back to the future.

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