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The New Yorker podprl Obamo
| 7. October 2008 | razno | Jure
Uredništvo The New Yorkerja se je odločilo, da javno podpre Obamo in ob tem pojasni, zakaj je le-ta po osmih letih katastrofalnega predsedovanja Busha mlajšega boljša izbira. Začne se seveda z obračunom, ki pokaže, kako slabo se je končal neokonzervativni projekt:
The Republican disaster begins at home. Even before taking into account whatever fantastically expensive plan eventually emerges to help rescue the financial system from Wall Street’s long-running pyramid schemes, the economic and fiscal picture is bleak. During the Bush Administration, the national debt, now approaching ten trillion dollars, has nearly doubled. Next year’s federal budget is projected to run a half-trillion-dollar deficit, a precipitous fall from the seven-hundred-billion-dollar surplus that was projected when Bill Clinton left office. Private-sector job creation has been a sixth of what it was under President Clinton. Five million people have fallen into poverty. The number of Americans without health insurance has grown by seven million, while average premiums have nearly doubled. Meanwhile, the principal domestic achievement of the Bush Administration has been to shift the relative burden of taxation from the rich to the rest. For the top one per cent of us, the Bush tax cuts are worth, on average, about a thousand dollars a week; for the bottom fifth, about a dollar and a half. The unfairness will only increase if the painful, yet necessary, effort to rescue the credit markets ends up preventing the rescue of our health-care system, our environment, and our physical, educational, and industrial infrastructure. Celoten članek
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New Yorker že vsaj od 1. novembra 2004 naprej odkrito navija za demokrate.
To je pa res nekaj nenavadnega. New York je pač od nekdaj umazano leglo demokratov.
Ko bodo Obamo podprli tudi v pravih ameriških mestih, kot sta Atlanta in Dallas, bo to postala novica.