Let Them Eat Cuts
Against The Current vol. 150
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3132
Date Written: 2011-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13724
The good times are flowing again for Wall Street and bank executives, and U.S. corporate profits have rarely if ever looked so lush. But it’s a brutal moment for working people, with much worse possibly to come. These twin realities set the economic and political agenda heading into 2011-12. Everyone knows the Republicans are hell-bent on “making Obama a one-term president,” but few expected that they’d capture the White House in 2010. If that’s an exaggeration, it’s a mild one.