Is this the President Obama we need? I had not read Paul Krugman’s blog in a couple of weeks. I like to scan it because every so often there is a title that makes me say “That is exactly what I was thinking.” I came across one of those today. He called it ‘Coal Comfort’. […]
We must ensure Americans penalize Republicans for lying and misinforming
Paul Krugman wrote a very salient piece yesterday titled ‘Inventing Failure’ that everyone should heed. In the piece he referred to The House Energy and Commerce Committee released report on Obamacare enrollment. The report was based on the reply to the committee’s request to insurance companies on the federal exchanges. The request was for these […]
Beware Of The Dog Whistle. We Are All Becoming ‘THOSE PEOPLE’
Yesterday I read Paul Krugman’s piece titled ‘That Old-Time Whistle’. Of course he meant dog whistle. It is a must read. It really caught my eye because my Sunday DailyKOS front page article was on the same subject. It seems like we ultimately came to the same conclusion. To be able to solve problems one […]
Krugman: ‘Better-informed people on the Right seem, finally to be facing up to a horrible truth’
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has a great analysis in his piece “Republican Health Care Panic”. Before going into the most prescient statement in his piece it is essential to quote his interpretation of what the law does. Inasmuch as it has been explained in many forms, Krugman’s one paragraph puts it more succinctly […]
Wealthy Purposefully Forcing High Unemployment To Maximize Their Profits
Current Economic Policy has failed given its inability to connect the large pool of skilled unemployed Americans to all the work needed to rebuild the country. After all, the country, from coast to coast is filled with dilapidated bridges, roads, water mains, pipelines, & airports that need repairing and rebuilding. The country’s children need more […]
Obama Falling Into Trap Again–It’s Not The Debt–New Occupy Movement Needed
Middle Class and Poor America must be climbing the walls. President Obama ran a middle class centric campaign and won handedly. He not only won the election but he added to the Senate and the House. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s policies were soundly rejected. President Obama’s 2nd Inaugural Speech gave the impression that he […]
America Deserves Better News: Sequester Pope Coverage And Cover the Sequester Effectively
It is understood that the Pope matters to 1.5 billion Catholics and likely many others. The Pope has abdicated his papacy. Cardinals will be getting together in the next few days to start a process to elect a new Pope. There will be little real news on that event in the near term. Media providing […]
Stop The Myth & Let’s Move On To Reality: Reagan’s Policies Were A Failure
To solve a problem one must agree on facts and reality. Ramesh Ponnuru’s piece “Reaganism After Reagan” attempts to implore Republicans to be like Reagan. Ponnuru believes Reagan did the initial lift that brought back prosperity by reducing the top tax rate that at the time was 70%. He softy scolds Republicans for living in […]
Jon Stewart To Paul Krugman–Still Think Trillion Dollar Coin: ‘A Stupid F*cking Idea’ (VIDEO)
Jon Stewart and Paul Krugman have been going at it lately over the trillion dollar coin. Here is the original segment that drew the ire of Krugman. Video After this segment, Paul Krugman wrote a blog article titled “Lazy Jon Stewart”. Krugman Wrote: Above all, however, what went wrong here is a lack of professionalism […]
The Triumph of Bad Ideas
On January 6th Paul Krugman wrote a piece (The Big Fail) every Right Wing politician and every myth based economist should read. It was expected that at this year’s American Economic Association meeting, that they would be discussing about the success of the slump ending. Instead, they are still talking about the ongoing slump. This […]