Give The People What They’ll Like, Already: Not “Stupid Hooverism”
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 like,...
View ArticleThe Washington Post’s Hooverite War on Economic Recovery
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
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. Now, let’s look at the latest effort of Robert Samuelson,...
View ArticleThe Procrustean Democracy of AmericaSpeaks: Part Four
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
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. And in a...
View ArticleMore Fairy Tales of the SOTU
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 framing of...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part One
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 greater...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part Two
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
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
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 consumer...
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