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lodger16x commented on the diary post Why our teachers and governmental workers are hypocrites! by Barefoot Accountant.
Well CPA, do I get to quiz you on things I know the most about? The world of information has exploded for many years now, and most people can’t keep up with much of it. It has taken me years of reading economists like Krugman and Baker on their websites every day, and many books [...]
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lodger16x commented on the diary post Why our teachers and governmental workers are hypocrites! by Barefoot Accountant.
Most people, even well educated ones, have little understanding of the finer points of all things regarding economics beyond their own household. And even the “great liberal” Obama has patronized them by repeating the right-wing lie that “the government is like a household”. I have heard of a few movements to pressure pension funds away [...]
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lodger16x commented on the diary post If GOP Base Voters Aren’t Racists, Why Did Gingrich Win South Carolina? by Phoenix Woman.
I think the REPUB base was not enthused in 2008 because 8 years of Boy W ended in complete and utter world economic disaster 3 months before the election! It took a few months for their leaders to create three opposing narratives. 1. “W wasn’t a true conservative, and the economy tanked because he didn’t [...]
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lodger16x commented on the blog post Andrew Sullivan Believes Obama Even Deserves Credit for Things Obama Opposes
Yes, Sullivan is in a fantasy world. I quit reading him because he seems to not want readers to be able to comment on his musings.
Maybe the most ridiculous claim he makes is that Obama has achieved nearly universal healthcare. Er, no. Tens of millions are uninsured, millions more underinsured, and millions cannot afford to take their meds on schedule and at recommended dosage. Obamacare has done nothing to change the fact that the US pays 2-3 times as much per person on healthcare as the rest of the advanced world. Obama let Big Pharma and Big Health Insurance control his agenda from Day 1. Just as he let Wall St, particularly Goldman Sachs, control his economic agenda from Day 1.
And defense is not being “cut”. There is maybe going to be some slight cuts to the Pentagon’s Wish List for the next decade, but defense spending will rise steadily. -
lodger16x commented on the diary post Capitalists: Venture vs. Vulture by dakine01.
Right-wingers have a theory, actually a religion, that applying for a job creates jobs. And of course, tax cuts create jobs. Because Greenspan, von Hayek, Ayn Rand, Herbert Hoover, and the Great Economists Rush, Sean H., and the One Who’s Not Steve Doocey say so, with never a doubt! We can all see what wonderful [...]
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lodger16x commented on the blog post Tennessee’s Bathroom Legislation Lunacy
When I was a kid, I remember the constitutional amendment to grant equal rights to women losing, after it seemingly was going to pass. I’m pretty sure TN was a state that passed it, then reversed. And to this day, women do not have equal rights according to the Constitution. And no significant amendment has passed since.
I remember well that one main reason it was defeated was the absurd claim that it would require all public restrooms to be unisex! Yep, men, women, and all children forced to share the same bathrooms, enforced by Big Gummin!
I’ve lived in TX and the South (mostly TN) my whole life. Why do my neighbors vote for the same old rascals year after year, decade after decade, as their economic standard declines? The analysis that it is a result of race-based propaganda from the 60′s is true, mixed with a highly-tuned class system , which dares not speak its name. I swear, a person making 70k in a small town thinks he’s in the national 1%! Why? Because he has a 51″ flatscreen, and the next biggest on the street is 39″.
There are a few fine colleges in TN, but the students are already in the upper class, or will play along to get along.
Like millions of progressives, I will be faced with Wall St Romney vs Wall St Obama in The Year of Our Hell 2012. I never thought America would come to this. The status quo is destroying itself, but how long will that take? I hope I get to see it, it may take as long as 8 more years. More or less. -
lodger16x commented on the blog post UPDATE: Panicked fundie-bigots meet in Texas to pick their ‘anti-Romney’ – Rick Santorum
Santorum had to tramp all over barely-populated rural Iowa for months to scare up a fair share of 120k total votes in a nation of 300 million. The same old dull white boy (Me Myself White Boy!) Big Guns of Evangelism, who the MSM has subjected me to for decades, have had their meeting in TX, so let’s see how their Guy Santorum does in SC. If the endorsement of 150 Evangelical leaders has not much effect in SC, can we please move on, and will the MSM quit giving these guys TV time they don’t deserve? These people have a lot of money and media sophistication, and I guarantee you they don’t allow dissenting ideas on their airwaves!
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