GOP to jobless: Drop dead
Steven Pearlstein
Washingto Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 16, 2010; 10:54 PM
Steven Pearlstein - GOP to jobless: Drop dead
Steven Pearlstein
Washingto Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 16, 2010; 10:54 PM
More than a century ago, a former congressman from Nebraska electrified delegates gathered in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention with a stirring denunciation of Wall Street and the monied interests that would put an over-indebted country through a wrenching recession in order to maintain the gold standard.
"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," bellowed William Jennings Bryan as he brought the convention to its feet. "You shall not crucify mankind upon the cross of gold."
The world has supposedly learned a thing or two about economics since Bryan's day, including the limits of clinging mindlessly to hard money during depressions and bouts of price deflation. But you'd never know it listening to the newly empowered and emboldened Republicans who have returned to Washington determined not just to reduce government's role in the economy, but to thoroughly emasculate it......
Steven Pearlstein - GOP to jobless: Drop dead
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