Let’s Make Him Do It
18th August 2012
Apparently Obama is not sufficiently socialist for some.
For positive change in the issues that affect our daily lives — not only food but also jobs, income, housing — we need active political leadership. But until President Obama is pushed more strongly by the left, the coming presidential election represents a choice between a full-fledged attack on government services and a continuing slide into the gloomy and depressing world of austerity economics. That’s a real choice, but it’s not a happy one.
The New York Times is possibly the only place where you can see what Obama does characterized as ‘a continuing slide into … austerity economics’. If adding trillions to the national debt in less than three years counts as ‘austerity economics’, what is the language coming to?
Mark Bittman, the author, allegedly writes ‘on food and all things related’, so I guess there is nothing that the Left doesn’t think relates to politics. These people need to get a life … preferably not at taxpayer expense, although I realize that is asking a lot.