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I feel almost like this will be a full-time job for many of us: trying to undo the stupidity racing throughout the political leadership when it comes to the foolish belief that we have some deficit or debt crisis. WE DON’T. It’s phony. And the belief in the phony "crisis" is literally going to kill […]

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     Forget the criminals on Wall Street. What is more telling, troubling and almost bizarre is how quickly the chattering classes and political power brokers have shaken off the stain of the financial crisis, inviting back to center stage some of the very people responsible for destroying trillions of dollars in wealth and costing millions […]

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  I think the hardest part of being immersed in a battle–even one that is energizing and inspiring–is to see where we stand in the overall war (with apologies to those who don’t like the military imagery). No doubt, the people in Wisconsin–and hundreds of thousands of supporters nationwide–have given the anti-union forces something to […]

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In the lore of political budgetary rhetoric, Sen Everett Dirksen’s observation is often useful: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money” he is rumored to have said–rumored because there is some debate about whether he actually used that whole phrase. But, whatever–it’s useful to our current discussion. Where […]

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   You all know, just by looking over here to the right, what I think about the phone deficit-debt scam. And, trust me, you ain’t see nothing yet when it comes to hyperbole and nonsense. A whiff comes in today’s Wall Street Journal: Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Mark Warner said Monday they would introduce legislation […]

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What a waste of time. They can now drift into obscurity. But, after listening to the self-congratulations of many of the members of the Catfood Commission, all I can say is: we have a long task ahead to turn around the country to get back to reality.   Here was the opening nonsense that I […]

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Over the past three days, we’ve looked at the phony deficit crisis withe excerpts from my new book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis", here (from the introduction), here (a taste of the the very Stupid Statements made about the deficit and debt) and here (who is behind […]

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   In the last two days, I’ve written about the phony deficit/debt "crisis" here and here, using excerpts from my new e-book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis". Today, as the Catfood Commission unveiled its final report, I’ll continue by looking at some of the people behind pushing […]

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Yesterday, I kicked off a series of posts about the phony deficit/debt "crisis" with an excerpt from the introduction to my new book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis". Today, I’ll continue with a part from the first chapter called, "Stupid Statements".   In honor of the mind-boggling […]

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The government’s deficit and debt are not a big crisis. It’s not even a little crisis. It’s not a crisis at all. What is most disturbing is how many liberals/progressives have thrown in the towel and are basically taking the line "there is a crisis but we have a better way of dealing with it". […]

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