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Economics and O-care

Supplemental discussion thread on macroeconomics and fiscal policy both in their own right and as they bear on the the Obama program. Includes discussion thread moved from J.E.’s post on the Kind of Blue Dogs of the House.

The Baucus-Gang O’Six Proposal

The Big Picture: I think that this proposal [pdf] represents an improvement over the HR 3200 if only because it’s readable. Nevertheless, for those of us who are concerned about deficits and government intervention in markets and excessive taxation, there’s much to dislike. This is just a synopsis but I was listening to Rush Limbaugh [...]

¶ Posted 09 September 2009 † Barbara § Barack Obama § Health Care § Legislation § Politicians ‡ Comments Off °

These Are Your Taxes: $$. These Are Your Taxes Under Obama: $$$$$$.

Upon his acceptance of the presidential nomination at the 1988 Republican National Convention, George H.W. Bush famously said “Read my lips: No new taxes.” Those words came back to haunt Bush after he was elected President and found himself forced by a Democrat-controlled Congress to go back on his word and raise taxes as part [...]

¶ Posted 24 August 2009 † Howard Portnoy § Barack Obama § Economics § Macroeconomic Analysis & Forecasting § Politicians ‡ Comments (1) °

Death and Taxes

Polls, as everyone knows, are not entirely trustworthy, so take with a grain of salt this statistic from a new Rasmussen survey. When asked in what direction they thought taxes would go during the Obama years, 6% of voters nationwide responded that they expect their taxes to go down. The same survey found that 42% [...]

¶ Posted 18 August 2009 † Howard Portnoy § Economics ‡ Comments (10) °

A Taxing Discussion

Charles Murray, of The Bell Curve fame, is IMHO one of the smartest guys around. (Quiet, fuster!) Murray has an interesting column in today’s Wall Street Journal. The article begins with the premise — which I find undeniably true — that all hell breaks loose in a democracy when voters believe (a) they are being exploited [...]

¶ Posted 13 August 2009 † Howard Portnoy § Economics § Fiscal Policy ‡ Comments (15) ° Tagged: Charles Murray

Discouraging Report from the FWCO

The well-documented beginning of the end for Obamacare was a report prepared by the non-partisan CBO (Congressional Budget Office) illustrating plainly that the numbers just didn’t add up. Basically, the CBO was confirming what any rational person could have told the Obama administration from the beginning—that you can’t alter the laws of supply and demand. [...]

¶ Posted 04 August 2009 † Howard Portnoy § Barack Obama § Economics § Financial Crisis § Health Care § Legislation § Media § Politicians ‡ Comments (3) °

Surprise! Tax Hikes for the Middle Class!

Larry Summers and Tiny Timmy Geithner are breaking the bad news inviting us to share in the sacrifice. I really don’t want to hear from the folks who are surprised, shocked, dismayed by this.

¶ Posted 03 August 2009 † Barbara § Economics § Fiscal Policy ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: Geithner, Summers

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Zolt The Jew: I finished "The Israel Test" on the plane coming home from the beach, Colin et all my dear frems. I will try to email Colin a brief review tomorrow. It is a very important book, of just over 250 big print pages. I could write more on it right now but right now the blonde below is distracting my attention. There is something about blondes with that look and the puckered lips which drives Jewish men crazy, crazy, crazy, even after a full day of Shabbas prayer, oy vey!
CK MacLeod: The Blonde Below...
CK MacLeod: Stop distracting me... I'm conjoining universes...
narciso: Just to get it straight, you're talking about Lady Gaga,
fustidious: clean up on the recbrow aisle needed!
CK MacLeod: feh
fuster the never satisfried: I see that you've grown more fond of the menu on top thing. I liked it from the git, but wonder if you might to able to work on the eye-appeal of it.
Howard Portnoy: Wow, it's my first time here since your remodeled, Czar. Looks great! Kudos.
narciso: Moved on to the last of Larsson, the reason for Sljander's rather idiosyncraticpersonality, her father is a Soviet GRU defector protected by the evil Swedish state security, Sapo, Larsson's journalist background does allow him to expound on the 'national security state' hidden in Social Democracy

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- when you’re a designated shepherd or sheepdog…
  March 6, 2010 | 12:17 pm
  … (remember you can designate yourself) part of you is actually glad to see a wolf, because now you can prove to everyone how important you are, by bossing everyone around for their own good.
  
  “A doctor and a peasant know more than a doctor alone,” the Italians used to say. Self-appointed doctors everywhere are working to suppress this insight. Human societies can save themselves from the next wolf, if they are allowed to do so; but it is hard for them to save themselves from the shepherds.
  
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Collected Poetry of Sully
- Telomeres
  February 17, 2010 | 6:23 am
  Telomeres of defined length,
  Were by his God in mankind bent,
  To make it sure that aged ones,
  Would pass to make room for their sons,
  Before they learn to mount the hill,
  They yearn to climb, their God to kill.
  
  New daughters too then see their day,
  As the used up old fair pass away,
  And the brighter young can in their turn,
  Seek their creator’s iron rules to spurn.
  
  One day mankind may beat the odds,
  And take on the powers of the gods.
  Sure on that day He’ll mold an image,
  And include within his toy’s equippage,
  A strictly limited telomere,
  To set for it a cliff that’s sheer.
  
  For once a former God is whipped,
  Displaced by his toy free will equipped,
  The former toy learns something odd,
  About possession of the mind of God,
  Namely, knowledge of the entire script,
  Makes the endless now a boring crypt.
  
  Mere mechanical beasts are not a cure,
  For their script entire a God knows for sure,
  To divert a toy must have free will,
  And at least a chance to climb the hill,
  There to displace its God, a bitter pill
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