DATE: 27 Feb. 2009
TO: My Political E-Mail List
SUBJECT: The Obama Budget: A Return to Equality
Stoked by the changes going on in DC, I just had to share with you, below, a few excerpts from today’s most-e-mailed article in the New York Times online. And remember: This isn’t about “class warfare” — even though that is what you’ll continue to hear from those on the Right who, as the article reports, for some 30 years have been effectively looting the national treasury and all the other wealth created by the hard-working, anything-but-rich people of this great nation.
No, this is simply about restoring fairness and wisdom to our economic policies. Why, even the rich will ultimately be enriched if the poor and middle class have more money, since it is the “anything but ordinary” Americans (as Obama so wonderfully put it) who buy most of the goods and services sold by the companies the rich are invested in. There’s a word for that phenomenon: It’s called “progress.”
Our nation, plundered by greed, will be restored by hard work and common sense. And I don’t know anything more American than that.
Doug
[Excerpt from “A Bold Plan Sweeps Away Reagan Ideas,” a New York Times article online, as posted here]
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