NY Times: Bob Herbert's No Work, No homes

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/opinion/14HERB.html


No Work, No Homes

By BOB HERBERT


Talk about preaching to the choir. President Bush and his clueless team of economic advisers held a summit at the president's ranch in Crawford, Tex., yesterday. This is the ferociously irresponsible crowd that has turned its back on simple arithmetic and thinks the answer to every economic question is a gigantic tax cut for the rich.

Their voodoo fantasies were safe in Crawford. There was no one at the ranch to chastise them for bequeathing backbreaking budget deficits to generations yet unborn. And no one was there to confront them with evidence of the intense suffering that so many poor, working-class and middle-class families are experiencing right now because of job losses on Mr. Bush's watch.


It's too bad George Akerlof wasn't at the meeting. Mr. Akerlof, a 2001 Nobel laureate in economics, bluntly declared on Tuesday that "the Bush fiscal policy is the worst policy in the last 200 years." Speaking at a press conference arranged by the Economic Policy Institute, Mr. Akerlof, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said, "Within 10 years, we're going to pay a serious price for such irresponsibility."

Also participating in the institute's press conference was Robert Solow, an economist and professor emeritus at M.I.T. who is also a Nobel laureate. He assailed the Bush tax cuts as "redistributive in intent and redistributive in effect." "There has been a dissipation of the huge budget surplus," he said, "and all we have to show for that is the city of Baghdad."

[grytpype]

1. The Bush Junta does not respond to criticism.

They ignore it, or they just lie, spin, and ridicule. They don't feel any sense of accountability. They are thieves, they have broken into the treasure house, and they are going to strip it clean. Period.

[GainesT1958]

2. And besides...

Why wouldn't it all be right? Their good buddy Grover Norquist said so! :eyes:

Sometimes it's hard to figure out whether Norquist, "Chip" Rove, Cheney, or Grumpy Rummy is actually running this misAdministration.

B-)

[The Zanti Regent]

3. NIce words, Mr Herbert, but I have a question!

Why does the New York Times slant all of its' "news" with a GOP bias?