“Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America’s Economic Future” Demands Equal Media Coverage

[Better Believe It]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 30, 2010

Report Warns Austerity Will Block Recovery, Risk Recession

Members of “Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America’s Economic Future” Demand Equal Media Coverage for Middle Class Economic Agenda, Growth Strategy for Deficits

WASHINGTON - November 30 - A new report from the Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America’s Economic Future demonstrates that the White House deficit commission proposals are “fundamentally misguided” and take the economic debate in the dangerous direction of austerity. The group of well-known experts and leaders of civic organizations released their own “Report and Recommendations of the Citizens’ Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America’s Economic Future,” on Tuesday, November 30.

The report, written by Jeff Madrick, a member of the commission and Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, with contributions from Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Roger Hickey, Robert Borosage and Richard Eskow of the Institute for America’s Future, Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and Demos, and Robert Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute, and additional work by other members of the commission.

The 36-page report contains a plan to maintain investments needed to speed up economic growth and produce jobs while lowering the federal deficit to a sustainable level in the long term. The report and links to related materials are posted at ourfuture.org/citizenscommission.

The release of the paper coincides with the announcement of a nationwide campaign to oppose the job-killing, middle-class-devastating austerity measures proposed by Republicans in Congress, President Obama's deficit commission co-chairs, and perennial deficit hawks such as Peter G. Peterson, and some Democrats.

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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/11/30-24

[OHdem10]

1. I hope they are given a listen. Hoover did the Republican

Medicine--Tighten your belts. and we had the Big Crash.

The thing that frightens me most is Republicans absolute
inability to understand that their Cut Spending Cut Spending
just might be the right Medicine but NOT AT THIS TIME.

For medicine to get its results, right medicine in the right
dose at the right time.

The Republicans say the American People and they and we know
they mean only Republicans. This truly illustrates they are
not prepared to govern.

They with an obsessive zeal believe only one answer to these
serious problems--Cut Spending, Get rid of Regulations on Business.
Cut Taxes. They recommmended this during Clinton's Good Economy.
Now they recommend this during our collapsing economy.

No they are not ready to lead. Deficits are important. I am
the first to admit that. Their prescription is the same.
Cut taxes, cut spending, get rid of regulations.

This tells me they are not ready to govern.

[OHdem10]

2. I wish CEPR would get Television Coverage of the material

covered in this post.

[OlympicBrian]

3. Other plans will initially be a windfall for corps and rich but then the economy will collapse nt