Give The People What They'll Like, Already: Not “Stupid Hooverism”
Body: For the Democrats in Congress, winning in November isn't rocket science; it's about having the will to pursue survival ruthlessly. The key to winning is giving the American people what they'll...
View ArticleThe Washington Post's Hooverite War on Economic Recovery
Body: Last weekend that so-called epitome of liberal media bias called The Washington Post continued its on-going war on economic recovery and the American people with two salvos on the “crisis” in...
View ArticleSamuelson's Hooveritis: A Religious Belief That Won't Go Away
Body: In my last post I discussed the Washington Post's Hooverite anti-deficit campaign and Fred Hiatt's recent piece in the deficit hysteria genre.
View ArticleThe Procrustean Democracy of AmericaSpeaks: Part Four
Body: In my previous three posts analyzing the June 26th AmericaSpeaks Community Conversation event I attended in Falls Church, VA, I presented the steps in the decision process used for the event, and...
View ArticleFairy Tales of the SOTU Related to Deficit Reduction
Body: In "All Together Now: There Is No Deficit/Debt Problem,” I warned against the message calling for deficit reduction that the President would probably deliver in his State of the Union Address....
View ArticleMore Fairy Tales of the SOTU
Body: Yesterday, I scored the SOTU on the 7 Fairy Tales I discussed previously, and concluded that the President was subscribing to at most two of them, and that he accepted the deficit reduction...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part One
Body: Many of my recent posts have focused on fairy tales I thought the President would tell in the SOTU and also those that he did tell. The reason for this is that I think people on the left have a...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part Two
Body: Here's Part Two of my textual analysis of the deficit reduction portion of Paul Ryan's Republican response to the SOTU.Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new...
View ArticleNeo-Liberalism Can't Beat the Tea Party: But MMT Can
Body: In the big budget fight going on right now in Congress, the Tea Party conservatives rightly point out that $61 Billion in spending cuts is just a drop in the bucket compared to the $1.6 Trillion...
View ArticleRyan's Follies: Bureaucracy, Austerity, and Depression
Body: Here's the next group of Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU.On bureaucracy and innovation:”Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise...
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