Comments on: John McCain Says: Want to Fix the Economy? Elect a Democrat

By: selise

selise — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:58:06 +0000

thanks for the link john - i only started reading greenberger after hearing him in that excellent june 3 hearing (which, btw, i ripped an mp3 of in case anyone would like it for their ipod)

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:35:32 +0000

re Enron loophole in commodities futures only faux eliminated by recent energy bill passage by supermajority over Bush veto, appreciation to selise @31 for MGreenberger link. In my usual haste, I had read his work only in the habeas abolition context, where his measured pronouncements have been thorough, as well. He had written on Rasul, Hamdi, Odah, and fairly recently on Boumediene vis a vis closure of gitmo[v.@Fn#2].

That commerce hearing on petrol is an interesting session.

By: AZ Matt

AZ Matt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:06:17 +0000

$5 a gallon? Well, it just goes to show that you should have married a moneybags and you wouldn’t have to worry about the cost of gas.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:02:53 +0000

It makes me wonder how thoroughly the US would have publicly investigated a suspicious death owing to radiation poisoning after tea at a posh hotel. Food poisoning, no doubt, not errant or planful Russian counter-intelligence activity.

By: dosido

dosido — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:00:13 +0000

McSame says we can grow our own victory gardens, sell the stuff on our sidewalks and send the money to fund the war, balance the budget and save the environment! It saves gas too cuz you don’t have to drive to the store!

We can also speculate on our own mortgages and the money we make can pay the mortgage!

Meanwhile…back at the Reality Ranch, gas is nearing $5/gallon in my ‘hood.

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:56:58 +0000

McCain to balance the budget by 2013

McCain’s happy talk express, leaving a very bad stench.
How could anyone vote for this dodo?

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:45:12 +0000

Thanks for that update…

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:44:34 +0000

I have a feeling that McCain’s people know that you can’t repay borrowings with more borrowings. It would be more intellectually honest to say that deficit spending, eg, in infrastructure, would generate local employment and tax revenue and yield worthy longterm investments. But it would not reduce overall debt except to the extent it seeded additional private sector investment.

But that’s not where McCain wants to go, I think. He’s promoting current spending, not investment. He’s spending tax dollars on crony corporations who aren’t reinvesting in the US or aren’t sharing a reasonable portion of revenue with those whose work - including most of what I guess we should now anachronistically call middle management - generates it.

So why would McCain go to such lengths to put out this crap? Perhaps it’s smoke and mirrors, a distraction and a preventive measure to persuade a passive press not to ask him what his economic priorities really are?

By: klynn

klynn — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:20:59 +0000

EW,

Sent you an email with an attachment…

By: selise

selise — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:20:52 +0000

thank you for the link.

i’d love to see spinney put in charge of pentagon procurement - or something more. if you are as big a fan of him as i am, you might enjoy this interview he did with george kenney. it’s from a year an a half ago - but still worth it and not significantly outdated (and some bits are hilarious).