DISQUS

Jay McDonough · 1 year ago

from swimming freestyle:

Two disappointing and, undoubtedly, related statistics. And stinging indictments of a Bush Administration that is so ideologically bent on deregulation, they've given up any stewardship of the American economy. As a consequence, we continue to drift towards an economic downturn European analysts refer to as depression-like while Mr. Bernanke dances nervously in Congressional hearings afraid to say the "R" word and President Bush goes AWOL to a NATO conference. It will require some real Houdini like moves on the part of the Administration and their minions to squirm out of accountability for this gigantic mess.

Democrats need to loudly remind voters the consequences of leaders allowing outdated and disproven ideological considerations to interfere with the business of managing the government and the, now obvious, implications for the American people.

Loudly. Very loudly.

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talboito · 1 year ago

"Axiomatic" is a strong word but voters, representatives, regulatory capturer's, etc choose various programs with various costs whose fiscal consequences are more or less contingent.

Tax decisions are very close to moving numbers around the ledger.