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    11 hours ago

    Economic recovery is slow and uneven thanks to Republicans fighting and stalling every economic measure proposed in order to make Dems look bad and republicans extracting their own concessions from the Dem plan to make the plan weaker and put more money in rich people’s pockets.

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      9 hours ago

      And the Dem delusion, of course, that just one more compromise with the GOP will reset political relations between the parties to its pre-1990s configuration.

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        5 hours ago

        When Obama elected to reinflate the housing bubble rather than provide affordable housing it set the stage for biden’s loss. But the modern housing bubble began with Clinton.

        It continued through multiple neoliberal administrations because those people value markets over anything else.