Establishment liberals are mistaken when they call say that Democrats on the so-called super committee charged with shrinking the deficit incompetent negotiators. It has nothing to do with incompetence. Rather, it is part of a larger failure of establishment liberalism and the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party.
The fallacy here is that negotiations are warranted, that slashing the deficit must be a priority at a time when the nation is battling an economic collapse. Without a serious jobs plan, one that matches the scope of the New Deal, the national economy will continue to disintegrate, costing the nation tax revenues and offsetting any cuts or tax hikes we put on the table.
Progressives need to get behind Dennis Kucinich’s jobs plan, which will increase employment while rebuilding our infrastructure; and, if we’re looking to pay for the jobs plan, we can do so by drastically increasing taxes on the top 1 percent and slashing military spending — both the money spent on our unnecessary and costly military escapades and the cash we hand off to contractors.
The issues are the jobs and economic inequality.
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