“We face a perfect financial storm,” Kucinich warned. “The elements are the deficit spending for the war of 3 to 4 trillion dollars, the trillion and more tax cuts, the war itself and the lack of serious investment in the country. We are being hollowed out. We are going to see more unemployment and more people losing their homes. With $700 billion we could have made a real investment in the country, in jobs, in infrastructure and in homes. Instead, we got robbed.”Dennis Kucinich
10/6/08
We Have Only Ourselves To Blame
According to Chris Hedges, the Democrats, including Obama and Biden, need to face the fact that they helped to completely screw middle-class Americans with the bailout bill. Here is a snippet from the story: