Nichols writes: "The agreement...[is] an expression of the austerity agenda that has stalled economic recovery and job growth in the United States and abroad."
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. (photo: EPA)
15 December 13
ost members of Congress were pleased with themselves Thursday.
They agreed to agree—crossing lines of partisanship and ideology—on an austerity budget that, as Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio has noted, “won’t create jobs, get the economy back on track, or meaningfully cut the deficit.”
That’s not the worst of it.
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