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The FEMA Worm Turns

Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction, and if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. – Mitt Romney, June 2011 Oh Dear. That phrase, music to the ears […]

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They’re All Keynesians!

Really. Yes, it has been a long day waiting for this interminable storm to pass through. So I have been wandering about the internet catching up. I came across this piece by Suzy Khimm in Ezra Klein’s ‘Wonkblog’. Let’s make it quick: Both parties in Washington are twittering on about how the drastic cuts imposed […]

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Obama is Scared

Dean Baker goes overboard. Well he suggests that Obama is failing to defend Social Security because of his fear of retribution from the policy elite. Baker is right. This is an issue that extends beyond Social Security. Many of us have been saying for a while that Obama is too beholden to an elite whose […]

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