Thursday, June 23, 2011
A Short Response
To my friends of the Libertarian persuasion: yours is the ideology of the five-year-old. To put it simply: No, you don't get to do whatever you want. Grow the fuck up a little.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Today's Question
Repubs are fond of saying, "they govern best who govern least". Then they run an election campaign on the premise that since the Dems haven't solved any of our problems (surely not due to Repub obstruction of course), you should vote for them to run the government because they have better ideas about how the government should go about solving problems.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Doin' The Math
We keep hearing from certain politicians that Tax Cutting is a magic elixir that always fixes anything that could possibly be wrong with our economy.
Here's a simple little chart that says different, in the words of Michael Linden:
It's from Think Progress, so of course there's a certain bias towards a more traditionally conservative approach to economic stimulus, but still; how d'ya argue against real numbers?
Here's a simple little chart that says different, in the words of Michael Linden:
“These numbers do not mean that higher rates necessarily lead to higher growth. But the central tenet of modern conservative economics is that a lower top marginal tax rate will result in more growth, and these numbers do show conclusively that history has not been kind to that theory.”
It's from Think Progress, so of course there's a certain bias towards a more traditionally conservative approach to economic stimulus, but still; how d'ya argue against real numbers?
What Congress Looks Like
This does (and somehow doesn't really) surprise me. From a study published in National Journal.
One other thing that caught my eye was the bit on Lobbying experience. We've been led to believe that government is chock full of lobbyists, but that's not how it looks. Maybe we need to look at how many people working for lobbying outfits have experience in Congress(?)
One other thing that caught my eye was the bit on Lobbying experience. We've been led to believe that government is chock full of lobbyists, but that's not how it looks. Maybe we need to look at how many people working for lobbying outfits have experience in Congress(?)
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