clivecrook.theatlantic.com - 2/27/2009
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It was nothing if not bold. Far from sliding away from his promise
to reform healthcare, Obama affirmed it by proposing a $635 billion
"downpayment" on the cost, financed about equally by high-income
taxpayers and by squeezing Medicare payments to private providers. To
announce an initiative of ...
blogs.dailymail.com - 2/23/2009
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blogs.dailymail.com —
A liberal admits to the racist attitudes of
the liberal elites against the “white ethnics” who do...
the dirty work of earning the money.
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"Budgeting We Can Believe In"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Krugman's relief is palatable: ...fears that Mr. Obama would sacrifice progressive priorities in his budget plans, and satisfy himself with fiddling around the edges of the tax system, have now been banished. This may very well be the most positive column Krugman has ever written about Obama. Clive Crook is also largely on board: To announce an initiative of that scale and scope in the
same budget that predicts a $1.75 trillion deficit in 2009, and a
full-employment deficit of 3% of GDP even after ten years of ...
Has Obamanomics Vanquished Reaganomics?
Opinionator —
... is partly the result of a widening gap between what Americans can afford to buy and what Americans, when fully employed, can produce. And that gap is in no small measure due to the widening gap in incomes, since the rich don’t devote nearly as large a portion of their incomes to buying things as middle and lower-income people. The rich, after all, already have most of what they want.” Hmmm, I think the rich might beg to differ on that last point. The Atlantic’s Clive Crook thinks the president’s sheer audicity should shame his lefty critics : “To announce an initiative of ...
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