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Regarding those against extended job loss benefits or with a Melon-esque attitude about the Great Recession: Maybe people … who have no risk of losing their cushy tenured job(s) shouldn’t prescribe medicine that they have no risk of ever taking. - Me Really, it’s like successful motivational speakers who give “Get Rich” seminars that use [...] Republicans can’t extend unemployment because it costs $33 billion. But happily approve $33 billion in addition war spending without such concerns. To quote: Republicans in Congress still were strongly behind the boost in war spending [emphasis added], but there was unusually strong opposition from members of Obama’s own Democratic Party. All but 12 of the [...] Michelle Obama wants you to sign Barack’s birthday card: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/barackbirthday to “let him know you’re ready to take on the year ahead alongside him”. Honestly I would be happy to “take on the year ahead alongside him” if he lived up to his campaign promises. Thus I put a little something “extra” in [...] Mostly so I don’t forget this vile screed: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down… enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.” - Andrew Mellon, rich bastard who knew no one [...] But only as far: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39851.html Yet another piece of evidence to explain why the Village (aka D.C.) doesn’t get what the rest of the country gets.
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Telle est donc la condition humaine que souhaiter la grandeur de son pays, c’est souhaiter du mal à ses voisins. or in English: Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors. - Voltaire Sad but true… More and more on the left and the right (but particularly the later, specifically Libertarians) one hears the idea that the economic end is nigh – soon it’ll be time to break out the guns, ammo, and survival skills. It has gone from mildly paranoid to explicitly wishful. Here’s my responses for this wistful desire: [...] CBO “money quote” via Delong: “There is no intrinsic contradiction between providing additional fiscal stimulus today, while the unemployment rate is high and many factories and offices are underused, and imposing fiscal restraint several years from now, when output and employment will probably be close to their potential” - CBO Director Doug Elmendorf (original source [...] |
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