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More good thinking about our current climate from David Brooks. As long as we punish hard work in this country our culture will continue its decline.
In a few years’ time, Ben is going to be disappointed again. He’s going to find that the outsiders he sent to Washington just screamed at each other at ever higher decibels. He’s going to find that he and voters like him unwittingly created a political culture in which compromise is impermissible, in which institutions are decimated by lone-wolf narcissists who have no interest in or talent for crafting legislation. Nothing will get done.
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That's exactly what some people want..... until they need something to get done.
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A recent study found more entrepreneurs starting new businesses in 2009 than at any other time in the past 14 years....in part, because, even with tight lending, money is cheap right now as a result of the current Fed policy. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/9...ew-businesses- Add to that the recent (and largest) middle class and small business tax cuts and tax credits.... but these dont come without a cost to the deficit as well. I do agree with Brooks on one point. Its easy to be on the outside criticizing and waving their signs, like the Tea Party crowd. Its much harder to offer constructive and realistic solutions. The US debt has to be addressed, but there are no simple solutions. Certainly not the notion of cutting spending AND cutting taxes, given that the largest and fastest growing component of the debt is entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare....) The solution will require compromise and tough decisions including cutting spending AND raising taxes. added: I am still perplexed at how silent the Tea Party crowd have been on the need for financial regulatory reform....another indication that they, at least the token leaders (Palin and now Rand Paul and to a lesser extent, Gingrich), are not interested in consensus building as much as they are in imposing their own narrow ideology. To some degree, IMO, the Cellar is a microcosm of the country. Alot of complaining by those who dont like the current policy direction, but very little in the way of alternative constructive solutions. Last edited by Redux; 05-22-2010 at 10:09 AM. |
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Getting centrists elected is the tough part since they can't speak to blind ideology. They have no core group to hold in place while they reach out to other voters. Rand Paul is going to get creamed defending BP the way he is. Sometimes corporations really are the bad guys. Growing small business should be the focus of centrists. Let's not create a regulatory morass that suppresses start-ups, but we damn well better regulate and hold big business accountable for environmental and economic destruction.
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I think you'll find new businesses tend to launch more as unemployment climbs.
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Quit being such a spoil sport. Fiat currency makes it easier for us to vote ourselves money from the public treasury.
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I would disagree with you that the monetary policy of the last decade (or two) was a "major driver" in the near collapse.
I would attribute more to the lack of regulation, specifically, the virtual repeal of Glass-Steagall (and the resulting housing bubble) and to a lesser extent, the grossly over-priced dot.com bubble. added: I am not a fan of Milton Friedman, the Hoover/Cato crowd and free market, trickle down economics, but I agree with them on this: Quote:
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Fixed it for ya.
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I agree, it will not. More smoke and mirrors by the Demoncratically controlled Congressional Whores, as it was with the Healthcare Reform and Stimulus Millions of Shovel Ready Jobs Package. A big fat FAIL as we are still at a near 10% unemployment rate. Elections are just around the corner folks. Vote the scumbags out.
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Democrats set to consider $197 billion in unpaid-for ‘emergency spending’
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Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/25/de...#ixzz0p5kXVxdU Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/25/de...#ixzz0p5kKiY00 |
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Wow Merc, that post was as long as one of TW's
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Well, except tw Writes his own Posts.
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Cite. Prove it.
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