The Red White and Blue Pill
Is Dr. Ben Carson unaware how women seeking abortions got pregnant?
Newly hired Fox News contributor Dr. Ben Carson proposed on Friday to “re-educate the women” so that they would stop having abortions.
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He added there was obviously not a “war on women” because men give up their seats to pregnant women.
Giving women a seat _voluntarily_ somehow trumps government actions that deny women autonomy over their bodies? This guy is nuts.
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State tax climate: Tax Foundation shows taxes don’t matter
Obamacare Has Gotten More Popular Since The GOP Shut Down The Government To Defund It
Just 23 percent of Americans say they want to continue the current shutdown to sabotage the health law.
Is it more than 23% in those 30 super-gerrymandered districts? That would explain a lot.
Austerity pushing Europe into social and economic decline, says Red Cross
“Many from the middle class have spiralled down to poverty. The amount of people depending on Red Cross food distributions in 22 of the surveyed countries has increased by 75% between 2009 and 2012. More people are getting poor, the poor are getting poorer.”
Sad thing is that many will read that and blame the Red Cross handouts for creating poverty and dependance.
Austerity isn’t working.
Janet Yellen on macroprudential regulation
Yglesias does a good job summarizing a kind of dry speech. I don’t think anyone should be worried about her being unqualified.
The Debt Ceiling and the Housing Bust
You can argue that these spending cuts wouldn’t have as much impact as the housing bust, because payment would be delayed, not cancelled, and at least some players would continue to expect eventual payment. On the other hand, as I pointed out in my last post, this time around we would have disconnected the automatic stabilizers — as GDP fell, revenues would fall, forcing another round of spending cuts, and so on.
GOP seems to prefer vicious cycles to virtuous ones.
Krugman: Automatic Destabilizers
The immediate question is whether Treasury can, in fact, “prioritize” — pay interest on the debt while stiffing everyone else, from vendors to Social Security recipients. If they can, they might choose to do this to avoid financial meltdown.
My worry s that once people stop getting paid the GOP will decided that they have more leverage and make greater demands.
Ron Paul supporter signs up for Obama care after having a health scare. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
House votes to approve back pay for furloughed workers
Congratulations Tea Party, you just gave all those Gubmit workers you hate a paid vacation while denying tax payers of the public services they provide. You increased government cost, didn’t shrink its size one bit and had an unproductive temper tantrum in public.