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The End Of The World. Again.

Conservative people always predict the end of the world as we know it when confronted by reform. They are right. That’s the point of reform. In the last two to three hundred years, during the great progress we have made towards our modern freedoms, every single step has engendered an “end of the world” reaction. […]

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More Extremism

Nobody likes losing elections. To do so is to suffer the rejection of things held dear. Still there’s always the next, which is a saving feature of democracy. Apparently the Republicans have no time for democracy: they want to short circuit the process and topple Obama right now. More particularly they want to topple Obamacare. […]

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The Austerity Flop

A very quick thought: The obsession with the federal deficit is misleading if you want to consider the effect of austerity here in the US. State and local government makes up a very sizable chunk of total government spending, and is, obviously, beyond the control of Washington. That means fiscal policy can be altered by […]

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