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    Test Bed For Gridlock?

    July 19, 2017

    We all complain about the gridlock in Washington. Nothing, it seems, can get done. Everyone becomes more and more cynical and disenchanted with government. Our belief and faith in our key democratic institutions plummets. And so on. That’s the story repeated relentlessly in the media. So wouldn’t it be nice if we could examine a […]

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    Apologies Not Accepted

    July 18, 2017

    OK, let me get back to it: I have just read a set of short papers over at a journal aptly named Democracy. The papers are held together under the banner:Symposium: has Economics Failed Us? Naturally that question was sufficient to get my attention, but reading through the material was so depressing. Why? Because there […]

    Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, Democrats, health care, plutocracy, Republicans /

    Healthcare Abyss

    July 18, 2017

    What are we to make of a major political party that is prepared to cast tens of millions of voters into the abyss? Really? What are we to make of a major political party that had no response to its own signature battle cry? “Repeal Obamacare!” Then what? Nothing, that’s what. What are we to […]

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