Will the DLC Dems support Keynsian Solutions to the Economy?
Taverner
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Fri Jan-09-09 03:29 PM
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Will the DLC Dems support Keynsian Solutions to the Economy? |
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Or are they going to continue with their Milton Friedman worship?
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Veritas_et_Aequitas
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Fri Jan-09-09 03:33 PM
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1. I think if Friedman were alive, he'd realize we're pretty much out of monetary opitons |
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that don't carry a huge risk of nuking the economy. Hopefully our DLC friends will realize that as well.
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Fri Jan-09-09 03:38 PM
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2. Yes but you have Republicans who still don't get it |
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And I would guess Terry McAuliffe doesn't get it either
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MannyGoldstein
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Fri Jan-09-09 03:42 PM
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3. They Will Continue To Sodomize The Middle Class And The Poor |
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Why the %^&* do we put up with them? It's like the Stockholm Syndrome at this point.
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Democrats_win
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Fri Jan-09-09 03:43 PM
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4. Does anyone think that the past 8 years haven't been Keynsian? |
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It has been monitary in name only. But bush has been deficit spending like mad. (The national debt doubled, people!) A lot of money went to the defense and security industry which can't defend us or secure us.
More went to bankers and wall street frauds.
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Fri Jan-09-09 03:47 PM
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5. None of that was particularly Keynesian. Keynes didn't just say run deficits for the hell of it. |
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There are ways of deficit spending that aren't productive and Bush found them.
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Taverner
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Fri Jan-09-09 04:25 PM
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Keynes suggested deficit spending with a purpose - not just making your buddies rich
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