The GOP comprehensive recovery plan: Eat the poor
Back during the healthcare debate, certain Republicans claimed we didn’t need reform because when the existing healthcare system failed, private charity organizations would magically step in to fill...
View ArticleTea Party favorite continues class war against the poor
I write a lot about how certain elite (pundits, politicians) have made it their quest to criminalize poverty. David Walker, a lackey of billionaire and Social Security pirate, Pete Peterson, openly...
View ArticlePermanent structural unemployment ‘recovery’ continues
Listening to all the blather about deficits and stimulus, it’s easy to forget that a whole lot of people are out of work, and that’s sort of considered normal these days (Very Serious People call it...
View ArticleCelebrating pretend and cruel Conservatives
Bobo somehow managed to survive his latest access-induced fever to scribble down some notes involving a wonderful dream he had about a “fiscal Conservative” named Meg Whitman. You see, Meg is a total...
View ArticleThe morality disconnect
Bob Herbert wrote a very good column today about what he calls the “campaign disconnect” between Democrats, Republicans, and average Americans. I highly recommend reading the whole thing, but...
View ArticleIrrational Greeks claim they’ve earned their money
In addition to Nobel Prize-winning economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz saying austerity during a recession doesn’t work, and the ample evidence in Ireland and the Baltics that retraction...
View ArticleTurns out cutting taxes during a recession makes things much, much worse
Via Atrios MINEOLA, N.Y. — Facing a huge budget deficit when he took office in January, Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano did not impose a hiring freeze. He did not stop borrowing to subsidize...
View ArticleBribing our way to ethical goodness
Kari Smith has an interesting take on how we can prevent future Peter Orzags from jumping ship to go work at Citibank One thing the low pay of senior public officials allows for is a pump-and-jump....
View ArticleBlaming the victim
Oh, hey. It seems the privatized alternative to public pension plans doesn’t work. Oh well! The 401(k) generation is beginning to retire, and it isn’t a pretty sight. The retirement savings plans that...
View Article“With Notably Rare Exceptions”
You guys, I never realized how hilarious Alan Greenspan is… Today’s competitive markets, whether we seek to recognise it or not, are driven by an international version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”...
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