Taming the Deficit with Health Care Reform

Monday, July 6th, 2009

For all you deficit hawks out there, fretting that universal health care coverage would bankrupt the country, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post offers an interesting graph, showing what might happen to our deficit situation, if we adopt european-style health care. The rising line — that's the status quo/GOP + ...

Lessons of 2008

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

America's still got it. Yes we can! Most people know dumb and fake when they see it. Interviews in slaughter houses - bad idea. Separating risk and reward - bad idea. Self-regulating works equally well with money men and toddlers. Socializing risk and privatizing profit is government only Republicans could love. Never entrust government to people who ...

You know you’re in deep doodoo when…

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

You know you're in deep doodoo when Bruce Bartlett, one of the alchemists responsible for Reaganomics, starts talking like a Keynesian. In ...