That’s the big question after the Republicans, true to their word, killed President Obama’s $447 billion jobs proposal.
In response, the president has pledged to break up his plan, which is already too small to significantly reduce unemployment, into even smaller chunks that the Republicans might swallow. It’s hard to find anybody who believes that’s a serious plan to put a dent in unemployment.
The only job the president seems to have a clue about preserving is his own, continuing to raise campaign cash at a record-breaking pace, raising $70 million for his own and Democrats’ reelection.
Meanwhile Republicans pursue their own single-minded agenda to enhance corporate power and their own – destroy President Obama, reduce taxes and cripple government regulation.
Unfortunately for Republicans, when you look at the facts, regulations don’t turn out to be much of a threat to jobs after all
The only legislation the two parties agree on are a handful of NAFTA-style trade agreements that most Americans fear will only lead to more outsourcing.
Where does that leave the 99 percent?
Out in the street.
That’s where they’ll be across the country and the globe today, to register their frustration with a political and financial elite whose actions created persistently high unemployment, plummeting home values, social service cutbacks and a world of growing economic uncertainty.
As OccupyLA states on its web site, “We have been giving away our representation to people who do not deserve it …”
Check here for a list of demonstrations around the world.