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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It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (4): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Posted on 03 December 2010.
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It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (3): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Posted on 02 December 2010.
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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It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (2): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Posted on 01 December 2010.
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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It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On (1): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis
Posted on 30 November 2010.
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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Debt Is Not A Sin–When We Build The Country
Posted on 27 November 2010.
This coming week, the drumbeat will get louder with the rhetoric about the phony government debt/deficit "crisis". I’ll be writing more about this in conjunction with my new book, "It’s Not Raining, We’re Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis". Today, I thought I’d focus on this specific point: debt is not a […]
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The Commission That Should go Away
Posted on 19 November 2010.
Frankly, this is good news: WASHINGTON—The bipartisan commission examining how to cut the federal debt ended three days of closed-door meetings Thursday without a firm agreement among its 18 members, with several saying the panel was still at odds over how to contain the ballooning costs of health care. The Commission should just […]
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The Phony Deficit-Debt “Crisis”
Posted on 11 November 2010.
I am so tired of listening to the transcribers of press conferences (people we used to call "journalists") speaking about the debt or deficit "crisis". They just regurgitate crazy, phony stuff–and the height of all this came yesterday with the release of the proposals by the co-chairmen of the Commission appointed by the president. […]
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