We can sustain a trillion dollar loss to the economy after 9-11, find two or three trillion dollars to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and allow a deregulated financial industry to create a housing bubble that plunges the world into recession and cost the United States in the neighborhood of twelve trillion dollars all the while corporate America has never seen profits so high, yet in these hard times for workers we cannot find one hundred billion dollars to keep firefighters, police, teachers and state employees on the job and serving everyone, we cannot find the wherewithal to help people stay in their homes, we cannot get Republicans to agree to the appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Protection Bureau...
There's more, but I am out of breath.
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