tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post5309307218354983189..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: Krugman vs. Brooks: If It Were a Fight, They Woulda Stopped Itdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-47133991381873039682014-04-26T16:39:54.266-05:002014-04-26T16:39:54.266-05:00**There is a rough historical pattern here. A new ...**There is a rough historical pattern here. A new technology is invented. It takes a long time before people figure out how to use it.**<br /><br />So Brooks says that economy will eventually grow once people figure out how to use the newly invented technology in innovative ways. This could take a long time. So why not wait until that happens (economic growth that follow people learning to use newly invented technologies) and then advocate tax cuts?CMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64622241782167017192014-04-25T19:47:34.538-05:002014-04-25T19:47:34.538-05:00The Daily Show had an excellent analysis of Republ...The Daily Show had an excellent analysis of Republican economics back in 2005:<br /><br />http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/vs59dt/faith-based-accounting<br /><br />I'd say it rivals Piketty and Krugman in its ability to explain the last three or four decades...Unsalted Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07388516480935688151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-17652355961640556372014-04-25T16:42:58.716-05:002014-04-25T16:42:58.716-05:00If you cleave the world into Republicans and Democ...If you cleave the world into Republicans and Democrats you get analysis like this: <br />"So, for eight years Clinton spent his time scaling down or sacrificing programs and promises that were near and dear to Liberals so he could repair the crippling disasters Conservatives left behind..."<br /><br />and this:<br /><br />"Anyway, after eight lean years of Liberal dreams short-sheeted so we could pay down Conservative profligacy, we were then forced to accept the fact that the dry-drunk halfwit son of the last Republican president was going to get away with stealing the election."<br /><br />If you look at the last 35 years through the lens of insiders and outsiders you get an analysis that looks this:<br /><br />After the insiders R.R. and G.H.W.B. helped other insiders with massive tax cuts and massive increases in military spending another insider B.C. helped his insider friends by cutting social programs, enacting NAFTA and gutting the Glass-Steagalll Act. He also signed a bill that gutted welfare in the name of personal responsibility. Clinton signed away gay marriage with a stroke of a pen to keep the pig people happy. He continued to bomb and sanction Iraq to soften it up for invasion on behalf of his insider oil buddies. GWB helped his insider pals by starting two wars and expanding access to medications without doing any of the obvious and necessary things that would have helped to control costs to the government. Another huge give away to his insider buddies. Obama and Holder helped their insider friends by "looking forward and not back". Prosecution of the war crimes from the previous administrations were forgotten and the well documented and wide spread criminality committed on Wall Street over the last ten years was completely overlooked while necessary legal reforms were watered down at best or completely ignored at worse. Obama kept Warren out of the CFPB too. Even ObamaCare, the most progressive legislation in 30 years is a great big give away to insiders! They do it all for their insider friends. The insiders are very happy indeed. <br /><br />So the Republicans and Democrats both serve the insiders. Sure they do it in slightly different ways and both parties pacify differing parts of the population using differing techniques, but the record shows both parties work tirelessly toward the same goal, helping other insiders.<br />the cheese eaternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71859095200812145672014-04-25T13:27:35.471-05:002014-04-25T13:27:35.471-05:00Fantastic!
Thanks for pulling all of that togethe...Fantastic! <br />Thanks for pulling all of that together. Karla Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69733681609346087432014-04-25T05:41:13.958-05:002014-04-25T05:41:13.958-05:00I have never read this blog before but I do like i...I have never read this blog before but I do like it when someone does a little research. <br /><br />Opinion writers seem to work under the assumption that their previous stuff just disappears, so it's good to resurrect some of the crap Brooks wrote a few years ago.<br /><br />That deficit stuff is s just pathetic. A bigger tax tax? Wow. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-68163973541579189002014-04-25T00:47:47.508-05:002014-04-25T00:47:47.508-05:00As always DG you "make it plain".
On ...As always DG you "make it plain".<br /> <br />On another note, I see little Luke is little closer fulfilling his boyhood dreams. I'm sure Big Russ and Lil Russ will be proud. RoninMichigannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72178733309079633002014-04-25T00:09:41.709-05:002014-04-25T00:09:41.709-05:00Sweet FSM's noodly appendages that was good!
...Sweet FSM's noodly appendages that was good!<br /><br />I predict nony adds something stupid about flyover country and a certain Id-iot screams BOTHSIDES in 3... 2... 1...OBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.com