Generational Gapping – $222 Trillion Worth of Schism
“Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.” This scornful observation of our human nature is attributed to …
Anyone else remember when tax cuts didn’t do anything for the economy? [Reader Post]
Krugman 2008
Bush tax cut mythology
As the debate turns to economic stimulus, we’re starting to hear this: “Bush realized that the economy needed help, so he asked Congress to enact tax cuts to provide stimulus. And this turned the economy around.”
10 for 12 – How the GOP can win the Presidency and bring back liberty and prosperity [Reader Post]
One of the challenges in politics is going from the general to the specific. Practically every American wants the things most politicians promise they’ll deliver: more jobs, economic growth, good schools, less poverty, freedom, a coherent foreign policy, etc.
The more opaque a politician gets the better voters seem to like it. The poster child for this was of course Barack Obama in 2008. What in the world does Hope and Change actually mean? Virtually every American hopes for the things listed above, but in terms of a plan for actually addressing any of them, what does Hope and Change really mean?
Say What? August 31, 2011 Edition [Reader Post]
Al Gore: “We need to have an American spring, you know, the Arab spring. The non-violent part of it isn’t finished yet, but we need to have an American spring. A kind of an American Tahrir Square. Non-violent change where people from the grassroots get involved again. Not the, you know, not in the Tea Party style.” Just not real grass roots; just not grass roots movements that disagree with him.
Raise Taxes or Granny Gets It [Reader Post]
This is quite amusing and worth reading:
President Obama is pulling out the big guns and pointing them straight at your grandmother. “Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3” absent an agreement with Congress to raise the debt ceiling, CBS News reports:
America’s Addiction To Social Insurance [Reader Post]
Since the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the advent of his Social Security program in 1935 Americans have been addicted to the false sense of security that the …
Peggy Noonans Absurd Bush Rant
Listen, I loved Reagan. But time has a way of making people forget the bad and only remember the good. Reagan was a great President and will go down as …