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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 6, 2017 at 3:12 pm
Krugman gets it right.
Conservatives for quite some time have put ideology ahead of ideas. For decades now they only speak in cliches and fear mongering. They have bought into libertarian mythology and market fundamentalist nonsense while abandoning any thought of thinking issues through and finding real world solutions based on empirical facts. Conservatives have become ideologues.
Trumps "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated" is revealing of how they refuse to think deeply. They've had years to think it through but never bothered to think about it at all other than to spread fear, unrest and doubt. They're very very good at that and it appears that they aren't much good at anything else. In the USA that's enough to get you elected president.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 6, 2017 at 3:12 pm
um . . .
Ed Meese ?
Don Regan ?
Joan Quigley ?
Larry Speakes ?
Olly North ?
Nancy ?
Reagan had a fucking court astrologer casting horoscopes and looking at goat entrails to determine his schedule. (IANMTU) And Nancy's machinations behind the scenes were not guided by anything other than her concerns regarding how things looked, her almost unbelievable miserliness, and maintaining the obsequiousness of Ron's staff towards her first, and Ron second. Anyone showing signs of not following her program got the whack-a-mole treatment.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 6, 2017 at 3:39 pm
(March 6, 2017 at 3:12 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: um . . .
Ed Meese ?
Don Regan ?
Joan Quigley ?
Larry Speakes ?
Olly North ?
Nancy ?
Reagan had a fucking court astrologer casting horoscopes and looking at goat entrails to determine his schedule. (IANMTU) And Nancy's machinations behind the scenes were not guided by anything other than her concerns regarding how things looked, her almost unbelievable miserliness, and maintaining the obsequiousness of Ron's staff towards her first, and Ron second. Anyone showing signs of not following her program got the whack-a-mole treatment.
The astrologer was Nancy Reagan's doing and you bet I'd take Meese and Regan over Bannon, Flynn, Conway, Miller, Carson, Price, Perry, De Vos, etc. Frankly, there is no comparison and, as history has shown, we survived the Reagan years. I do not have that same confidence in the WLB.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 6, 2017 at 3:45 pm
(March 6, 2017 at 3:12 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: um . . .
Ed Meese ?
Don Regan ?
Joan Quigley ?
Larry Speakes ?
Olly North ?
Nancy ?
Reagan had a fucking court astrologer casting horoscopes and looking at goat entrails to determine his schedule. (IANMTU) And Nancy's machinations behind the scenes were not guided by anything other than her concerns regarding how things looked, her almost unbelievable miserliness, and maintaining the obsequiousness of Ron's staff towards her first, and Ron second. Anyone showing signs of not following her program got the whack-a-mole treatment.
Again, with the Reagan administration, incomptence was an attribute. With post 1994 republicanism, incompetence was the means to seek attainment of the truly nefarious end.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 7, 2017 at 3:57 am
(March 6, 2017 at 2:42 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: (March 6, 2017 at 2:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I still like the idea of the smallest possible government. The thing is, as Min points out, that the smallest feasible government nowadays is unimaginably larger than the founders could envision at all.
There's two sorts of people who don't heed the passage of time: fools, and the dead.
Even in the time of the founding fathers a minamilist government was an unfeasible option. They found that out when their volunteer army got its collective arse handed to it when trying to annex Canada in 1812.
Of.course. Both political extremes suffer the flaw of ignoring human nature.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 7, 2017 at 6:37 am
(March 7, 2017 at 3:57 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (March 6, 2017 at 2:42 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: Even in the time of the founding fathers a minamilist government was an unfeasible option. They found that out when their volunteer army got its collective arse handed to it when trying to annex Canada in 1812.
Of.course. Both political extremes suffer the flaw of ignoring human nature.
True that. Both left and right utopian visions think of people as automota.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 7, 2017 at 10:48 am
In retrospect, I'm kind of glad we didn't annex Canada. Maybe we shouldn't have tried to do that in the first place.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 7, 2017 at 11:01 am
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(March 7, 2017 at 10:48 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: In retrospect, I'm kind of glad we didn't annex Canada. Maybe we shouldn't have tried to do that in the first place.
Too goddamned cold anyway, amirite?
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 7, 2017 at 5:54 pm
Yeah but hockey would be everywhere.
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RE: Paul Krugman Nails The Problem
March 7, 2017 at 6:05 pm
(March 7, 2017 at 5:54 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yeah but hockey would be everywhere.
That is not a selling point.
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