tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post7291811191569288246..comments2024-03-28T10:22:25.136-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Will the media cover this policy question?<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61411818029082104102020-10-28T03:43:40.127-04:002020-10-28T03:43:40.127-04:00I accidentally read your article, it's very go...I accidentally read your article, it's very good<br /><a href="http://vex3game.com/" rel="nofollow">vex 3</a>Heena Cruzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00506982617879941961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46088832344751322802013-02-25T21:18:01.653-05:002013-02-25T21:18:01.653-05:00Write more, thats all I have to say. It looks like...Write more, thats all I have to say. It looks like you relied <br />on some reputable sources to make your point. You definitely know what you're talking about.<br /><br />Also visit my site ... <a href="http://Offshore-Company.co/Offshore-Banking/" rel="nofollow">Offshore Banking</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50802670118000234102013-02-24T01:21:38.307-05:002013-02-24T01:21:38.307-05:00Hi,
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htt...<b>Democrats Set to Break Spending Cap Agreement</b><br /><br />http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/04/democrats-set-to-break-spending-cap-agreement.php<br /><br /><br />Neither Congress nor the Pres is serious about ending and paying back the deficit.david in calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78745919558752498522012-04-23T23:24:44.528-04:002012-04-23T23:24:44.528-04:00But uh-oh! As best we can tell, no reporter ever m...<em>But uh-oh! As best we can tell, no reporter ever mentioned this fact at Krugman’s own New York Times. </em><br /><br />Your point eludes me. Is Krugman now editing the august daily?Quaker in a Basementnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20485102305205377282012-04-23T18:10:04.649-04:002012-04-23T18:10:04.649-04:00One might be tempted to ask who has changed? Somer...One might be tempted to ask who has changed? Somerby or Krugman?<br /><br />Seems like ol' Bob can't find a single "liberal" who pleases him. Reads more and more like limbaugh.com every day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1522639043804408892012-04-23T15:40:28.685-04:002012-04-23T15:40:28.685-04:00Personally, I've decided that the Dems' la...Personally, I've decided that the Dems' lack of a plan to deal with the deficit is (slightly) preferable to the GOP's insane plan, which is, as always, cut taxes and slash social programs.John Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02637351629319676659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52611309521127285232012-04-23T13:38:43.704-04:002012-04-23T13:38:43.704-04:00Krugman’s increasing tribalism,
It is indeed alar...<i>Krugman’s increasing tribalism,</i><br /><br />It is indeed alarming and depressing. Hope this clowning is a short-lived diversion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59469642072068272702012-04-23T12:21:18.076-04:002012-04-23T12:21:18.076-04:00One could be technical and argue that a "focu...One could be technical and argue that a "focus on" deficits is a distinct matter from "deficit cuts" -- and a "focus" could very well affect public policy, by precluding (for example) any further stimulus spending -- but there have been several rounds of spending cuts, the first of which is scheduled to go into effect in 2013. Perhaps you weren't paying attention, David in Cal. And there would have been far greater cuts, stupid and injurious ones, if Repubs had been willing to accept Obama capitulation on the Grand Bargain.<br /><br />"with no end in sight".<br /><br />Not quite true, David in Cal. Letting the Bush tax cuts expire -- which is how they were sold to the public by Republicans-- would raise about 4 trillion over the next 10 years, bringing deficits down substantially. Letting them expire only on top earners, while providing a far smaller saving, is not an insignificant savings, but of course also opposed by your party.<br /><br />"No reform of Medicare or SS".<br /><br />Like all Repub propagandists hostile to New Deal programs -- so what if they've kept hundreds of millions of seniors out of abject poverty? -- you dihonestly lump these two very dissimilar programs together. David, as has been explained to you numerous times, 1) SS is an income transfer program which doesn't contribute a dime to the deficit (excluding the Repub demand, this year, for financing the payroll tax holiday out of deficit spending). If the SS Trust Fund is an accounting fiction, than so every portfolio which hold Treasury securities. Or, if you think it's good public policy to default selectively on Treasury securities to reduce the deficit, how about we start with yours, or those held by your private pension plan, instead the SS trust fund?<br /><br />As for Medicare -- the problem, as you should well know by now, is the cost of medical care generally. At 17% of GDP, the price of drugs and care in the U.S. is simply unsustainable. But of course, you're not willing to address the price of medical care generally, because that's a triumph of the free market. Note that at the current rate of medical inflation, these costs will bankrupt the country even if Medicare is eliminated.<br /><br />"Stupendously generous federal pensions"?<br /><br />What, in the world are you talking about? All those evil bureaucrats with decent retirements?<br /><br />Your mind is a mystery to me, David in Cal, and I confess to being tribal about it. Is there something about Republican ideology which requires constant dissembling, is it your nature, or are you paid to do this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20415029567440694412012-04-23T11:43:35.111-04:002012-04-23T11:43:35.111-04:00Don't miss Chris Hedges's dispatch on the ...Don't miss Chris Hedges's dispatch on the French elections. It seems in the land of Voltaire and Montesquieu the political discourse has grown as stupid and shallow as ours. www.truthdig.comJeeves Stumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17716700263908484003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-40508904217288845192012-04-23T11:30:46.675-04:002012-04-23T11:30:46.675-04:00Krugman wrote:
Mr. Obama was an active participa...Krugman wrote: <br /><br /><i>Mr. Obama was an active participant in Washington’s destructive “pivot” away from jobs to a focus on deficit reduction.</i><br /><br />Set aside the question of whether Mr. Obama was culpable in this "pivot" and set aside the question of just how destructive it was. The more important question is, <b>What deficit reducion is Krugman talking about?</b> <br /><br />The Federal Government has been running record-setting, trillion dollar plus deficits, with no end in sight. There's been no major tax increase, no major spending decrease. No reform of Medicare and Social Security. No reform of stupendously generous federal pensions. In what world has the federal government pivoted to deficit reduction?David in Calnoreply@blogger.com