The Red White and Blue Pill
Blaming China Masks our Real Economic Problems
For the most part, the response of economists to the candidates’ exchange over trade was highly negative. Economists are strong advocates of open, unimpeded trade between nations, and with all that economists have done to promote the idea that specialization and trade is mutually beneficial – an argument with the public that has persisted for hundreds of years how could the candidates regress into this primitive mercantile thinking?
Worth a read.
Kill lists? Dems don’t want to know
When first asked about why her party’s presidential nominee flip-flopped on indefinite detention provisions in his National Defense Authorization Act, she refuses to answer the question by saying, “I didn’t hear that as a subject at the debate.” When subsequently asked about President Obama’s notorious “kill list,” in which he unilaterally executes those (including U.S. citizens) he accuses of terrorism, she insists, “I have no idea what you are talking about,” then smiles and says, “I’m happy to answer any serious questions you have.” When asked, “Why isn’t that serious?” she shuts down the interview by declaring, “Because I have no idea what you are talking about.”
Note to the white house, you are pissing off your base. Again. This is a two fold insult to the base. First, doing something widely unpopular and second, refusing to discuss it as if this should be above discussion.
(via How Do I Geography? – Cheezburger)
In Boca Raton Romney declared that simply by being elected he could start a boom, “without actually doing anything”.
This is a guy with dancing horse and car elevator who expects amazing progress in the economy just by him showing up. This is a guy who is out of touch on an epic scale.
Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes?
Alzheimer’s could well be a form of diet-induced diabetes
Wow. This is hardly proof but the articles linked by Mr. Bittman are worth reading.
My effective tax rate is higher than the 13% that Mr. Romney paid so I think I earned the right to consider him a moocher and a parasite and lecture him on personal responsibility.
(via Taxes Over The Life Cycle – NYTimes.com) We have more people who don’t pay taxes because we have more old people living off savings and the Social Security benefits that they paid into. They aren’t mooching. They are consuming that which they contributed before. This doesn’t go along with the whole Ayn Rand moocher/looter… Continue reading Untitled
soupsoup: Where the 47% live (via @scotthomasson)
Anyone else notice that many of the same people who opposed the Ground Zero Mosque are the same people who are defending the Sam Bacile’s anti-Islam movie? And many of the same people who asked for deference to sensitivity are now demanding the right to offend? How exactly do you defend the free-speech of Mr.… Continue reading Ground Zero Mosque versus Sam Bacile