Budget talks: This is getting nasty

Yep. Eugene Robinson's vague column = the fiscal policy of the left in 16 months from now.

 

What the right is overlooking is the effect of the fact that too many legislative righties took off their masks (for just long enough) for the broad public (not the GOP righty base), to permit them to get a REALLY good look at what they're about -- a bunch of Koch-smoking corporate tools, with NOTHING for you, little man. Their message to the dwindling middle class: eat shit, lick our boots, and die.

It's going to be great fun watching Walker's forces get keelhauled in Wisconsin, as that story develops, in the near term.

 

While acknowledging that the Koch brothers are billionaire business men, I don't think it's right to say their interests are the same as "big business" in general.

The WSJ called the "Tea Party" hobbits for God's sake.

 

The liberal media is cracking up. They're terrified.

Instead of delivering the news or analyzing it, they're basically holding on air strategy sessions on behalf of the President and the Democrat(ic) Party.

MSNBC is now discussing/recommending the President run a campaign against a "do nothing" congress:

Andrea Mitchell: And the "Tea Party" is down in that poll as well, down to 20% approval, so they did not benefit at all from the gridlock in the the last couple of weeks.

Mark Murray (NBC News Deputy Political Director): And neither did John Boehner, who's disapproval number also went up in that poll:

Andrea Mitchell: Well, partly because people began to realize exactly who John Boehner really is.


LOL. Who is John Boehner really Andrea?

 

The liberal media just wants all the boogieman news out there . . . and there's certainly plenty to disseminate, especially in the wake of all we've just gone through.

It's easy to tear Romney apart. A smart fifth-grader can do it.

And Perry? Can't wait. Get the popcorn ready.

 

And the minimum wage was $1.15.

 

According to this

http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm

in order for real wages to have remained completely flat for 49 years, the minimum wage should now be $8.40 an hour.

According to this, in no state in the union is it that high:

http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm

 

Just bring this poll back up. Just shows how The Times can slant things when they want.

100 people surveyed - 81 with incomes under $100,000/ 13 with incomes over and 6 decliners.

Of course the majority are going to say yes to higher tax for those with incomes over $250,000.

Did not see breakdown either of how many considered themselves Republican/ Democrat/ Indy.

 

I battled LTL to blows about this on a teacher thread once upon a time. It's simply not true. At least not generally. Profit motive drives innovation. Period. End of story. And nothing immoral about it. Nor about doctors, lawyers, and CEO's "sticking it to" their customers. Market failures like pollution and information asymmetry should be curbed by well-considered government regulation. Other than that, the market pretty much knows best, and I'll trust the profit motive more than the "calling" motive 100 times out of 100.

 

Jonas Salk disagrees.

 

OK. Ninety-nine times out of 100. And note that I did qualify the tenet by saying "generally."

I, for one, am not going to sit around and wait for the magic Altruism Fairy to come along and solve all of our technological problems. Humans respond to incentives.

 

And, to be clear, this doesn't mean that I am in lockstep agreement with YF on tax policy. I suspect the point at which the costs of taxation outweigh the benefits is far below what he thinks, although I'd have to bone up on things a little bit more to confirm that intuition.