tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post374909491180787327..comments2023-10-31T09:14:26.930-05:00Comments on Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues: Palin Steps Up To Lead Nazilike Campaign Against Health Care ReformManifesto Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-81681338968793197302009-08-15T01:46:51.442-05:002009-08-15T01:46:51.442-05:00"... most serious economists"???
Anon, ..."... most serious economists"???<br /><br />Anon, you can't be serious. Please tell me this is a farging joke.<br /><br />When FDR took office March 4, 1933, the unemployment rate was hovering around 25%. The Democrats hadn't had a chance to implement any economic policies at that point. The Republican policies of the 1920s had been effectively unchallenged, and they resembled "Reaganomics."<br /><br />Then their effects were worsened by the Republican Hawley-Smoot tariff passed in 1930, by a Republican-led Congress and signed by Herbert Hoover.<br /><br />The only serious debate that remains among economists about this was how much effect the New Deal had toward pulling the U.S. out of the Depression. The free-market school would argue that it did little, and that it may have actually made some aspects worse. Others would strongly disagree, and I found myself generally agreeing with that school.<br /><br />I spent three years editing college economic textbooks, and talked to plenty of "serious" economists. Even the supply-siders would find your observations about causality ahistorical and ludicrous.Manifesto Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521151220297061304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-17281749135066309062009-08-14T18:14:47.561-05:002009-08-14T18:14:47.561-05:00If you talk to most serious economists, they will ...If you talk to most serious economists, they will tell you that it was the policies of the Democratic Party that led to the Great Depression of the 1930's.<br />The lesson of Ronald Reagan was that, if you cut taxes and regulations, the economy will grow.<br />It's a shame that today's Dems have yet to learn this valuable lesson.<br />Hence, the second Great Depression, that Obama is presiding over today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-41182250895978224962009-08-12T03:53:26.403-05:002009-08-12T03:53:26.403-05:00Palin's "death panel" remark, though...Palin's "death panel" remark, though despicable, was actually a brilliant piece of right-wing propaganda.<br /><br />Palin, her handlers, and the rest of the hard right in the U.S. are increasingly embracing the Drudge approach to propaganda.<br /><br />The reason for Drudge's phenomenal success in pushing propaganda is a dirty little secret: that is: everyone read the headlines, but fewer people read the retractions.<br /><br />Tens of millions of Americans heard Palin's "death panel" remark. But how many heard the retraction? Even if it was a majority, that still leaves millions of people who now believe the "death panel" story.<br /><br />Palin's approach is evil, it is despicable and it is immoral.<br /><br />But how much sleep do you think the likes of Palin, Drudge, and Rush lose at night? Not one f*cking second, would be my guess.Marc McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17105754072842852126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2502695489360674806.post-58919519306009945382009-08-11T16:23:27.932-05:002009-08-11T16:23:27.932-05:00How irritating is Sarah Palin? Let me count the wa...How irritating is Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:<br />1. That shrill voice and immature expression and tone.<br />2. That matronly hair style --- yeccchhh!<br />3. The shallowness of thought and the glaring lack of knowledge on subjects she should know.<br />4. The narcissistic constant craving for attention. It's obvious. <br />5. The irresponsible way she pours gas on the fire of ignorance, hatred, divisiveness, and extremism.<br />6. Her constant and insincere self-centered use of her own children to manipulate the media and advance her career. <br />7. Her impulsiveness and rashness,inconsistency, and inability to properly finish a job.<br />8. Her complete dishonesty.<br /><br />I get the feeling Palin is being coached by some literary agent to keep her snooty face in the media with non-stop calculated and crazy extremist remarks. I think it is an accurate charge that our pathetic media is giving her far, far too much attention. I really believe she is doing all the crazy things she does just to stay in the spotlight so she can earn money making speeches and selling books. That's what it's really all about: all about the preoccupation with herself, not with solving the country's problems. This crazed woman is leading the blind right off the cliff with her. She will be visible, to be sure, but she will never be what she really wants to be: the leader of the free world. She is inferior and has nothing of what it takes to be a good and effective national leader. She and her entire crazy family can take a boat out into the middle of the Bering Sea and sink it for all I care!Jack Jodellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165430903903838990noreply@blogger.com