As Europe collapses, Americans vote to be like Europe. The republicans now have control of the purse strings, and, among other things, have promised to reduce next years deficit from $1470 000 000 000 to $1370 000 000 000. We are in a bus heading towards a precipice at seventy miles and hour, and the republicans promise to slow down to sixty five miles an hour. Any tea party candidate that made vague noises in the general direction of doing …
Vote Cthulhu
Why vote for the lesser evil? Bush, of course, launched numerous expensive new programs and entitlements, and failed to restrain the inherent growth of Clinton’s affirmative action easy mortgage program. He encouraged the growth of that program, though to judge by the screaming of the Democrats at the time, probably slightly less than the Democrats would have done. But even if Bush had launched no new entitlements, restraining the inherent growth of Clinton’s mortgage program would have been unthinkably drastic …
Fixing the financial system
We are in trouble, the entire west is in trouble, in substantial part because the financial system has been leaking a lot of money. So has every other part of the governing apparatus, but the financial system is the biggest hole in the bucket. Now a lot of people are saying that this is a revolutionary election, it is about fundamental change. Thomas Sowell, a man I enormously respect, tells us this is a crossroads election. But is not. The …
hyperinflation of the US$
A great storm first manifest as clouds on the horizon. The Republicans are going to wish they had not won the 2010 November elections. Supposedly US inflation is near zero, yet food, fuel, and heating oil has risen substantially. Gonzalo points out Grains as a class have risen over 33% year-over-year. Refined oil products have risen just shy of 13%, with home heating oil rising 18% year-over-year. In other words: Food, gasoline and heating oil have risen by double digits …
War on masculinity
Roissy has a couple of great posts about the war on masculinity “Belittle League†and “The medicalization of malenessâ€
The supposedly unelectable Sarah Palin
The Democrats assure Republicans that Sarah Palin is unelectable, and that for her to be nominated for president in 2012 is their wet dream, because it would assure Obama of a second term, that if Republican nominate Sarah Palin, Democrats will be celebrating. At the same time, the Democrats are quietly pushing the supposedly much more electable Michael Rubens Bloomberg as Republican presidential candidate in 2012, creating opportunities for him to receive favorable publicity, giving him lots of respect in …
Sarah Palin proposes an insignificantly tiny reform
Sarah Palin proposes an insignificantly tiny reform. The impressed response to Sarah Palin’s suggestion, the horde of blogs thrilled by her suggestion, shows how rare such suggestions are. She suggests a tiny move rightwards, while normally the extreme right wing of the Republican party merely proposes that we move leftwards at a slightly slower rate.
Who fortold the financial crisis?
Howard Husock did in 2000
Winning will be another Republican disaster
Everyone on the Republican side is sucking up to the anti capitalist left – including Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnel. None have the will to reverse the policies that are ruining the economy, making the middle class poor and insecure. So, when elected, will get the blame for the consequences of these policies. Since the supposedly hard core capitalism of the Republicans will not work, obviously the solution must be more socialism. Sarbanes–Oxley, the regulatory door revolving, and Basel, have …
Elections do not matter.
The most extreme of the “right wing” candidates are proposing measures far too feeble to make a difference. Consider for example, the mortgage scandal. Where is the candidate that suggests that to fix our financial system, the bums (the entire financial sector of wall street and the regulators to which they are connected by a revolving door) need to be fired for incompetence and imprisoned for fraud? A lot of people are proposing “solutions†for the mortgage crisis – but …