All the cool kids are joking about the Panetta-Burns plan, but I wish there would be some polling on the actual Black-Sanders* plan to have the Federal Reserve give lots of free money to everybody in the country. I imagine it would be popular. And it would reduce the real value of the debt by nudging up the price value. Also, too, more demand, more jobs, less misery and suffering.
*Sanders did not actually have any role in devising this plan.
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
GOP Daddies
Oh Lord. Apparently they're leaking that Chuck Hagel is on the SecDef shortlist. Why oh why must Democrats appoint GOP Daddies to these positions all of the time.
How About Nothing
I'm betting Cuomo and Christie will get approximately nothing.
Because austerity. It's what's for breakfast, lunch, AND dinner!
Because austerity. It's what's for breakfast, lunch, AND dinner!
New Entry On The Shitlist
Antonio Villaraigosa.
Like his support of trains, but Fix The Debt is the most transparent Steal The Social Security Money crowd we've ever seen.
Like his support of trains, but Fix The Debt is the most transparent Steal The Social Security Money crowd we've ever seen.
Haven't We Been Here Before
David Brooks wants to replay this game in 3 months.
We are facing a crisis, so let's manufacture another one!
As I said before, this involves Congress taking itself hostage and threatening to shoot the country.
But the big demand would be this: That on March 15, 2013, both parties would introduce leader-endorsed tax and entitlement reform bills in Congress that would bring the debt down to 60 percent of G.D.P. by 2024 and 40 percent by 2037, as scored by the Congressional Budget Office. Those bills would work their way through the normal legislative process, as the Constitution intended. If a Grand Bargain is not reached by Dec. 15, 2013, then there would be automatic defense and entitlement cuts and automatic tax increases.
We are facing a crisis, so let's manufacture another one!
As I said before, this involves Congress taking itself hostage and threatening to shoot the country.
Actually Surprising
Warren to Banking.
Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), one of the banking sector's harshest critics, is being tapped to serve on the Senate Banking Committee.
Retire
One thing I don't get about these rich assholes is why they don't...just retire and start counting their money and spending it on whatever they can. They really can't spend it all. I dunno if Adelson really fears corruption charges of any kind, but even if he does I imagine, given our rich people don't face justice policy, that he could just sail off into the sunset with some hookers and blow and enjoy.
Monday, December 03, 2012
Gun Nuttery
It really is just bizarre. I get that people (mostly wrongly, but it isn't totally insane) think that there's some value in owning a gun for self-defense, but to deny the obvious - that in heated situation, if gun, death more likely - is mind boggling.
It's really easy to kill somebody with a gun. It's pretty hard otherwise, even if you really want to.
It's really easy to kill somebody with a gun. It's pretty hard otherwise, even if you really want to.
No Money There
As Krugman says, many of the preferred by the Villager solutions to nonexistent problems don't actually save the government any money. Raising the Medicare age a bit wouldn't save much public money, and would likely end up costing more in the net. Also, too, suffering, bankruptcy, and misery.
But we know this, as the preferred method for cutting the deficit is... cutting taxes.
But we know this, as the preferred method for cutting the deficit is... cutting taxes.
Blue PA
A Republican can win Pennsylvania, of course, but if a Republican does win Pennsylvania it will be because there's been a national landslide.
The Philly suburbs turned blue, and that was the end of the game.
The Philly suburbs turned blue, and that was the end of the game.
Fracking Our Way To Hell
My first reaction to the Marcellus Shale finds in PA was that we're screwed.
Resource extraction economies are never pretty. Except Norway, but they do things differently there.
Resource extraction economies are never pretty. Except Norway, but they do things differently there.
Mint The Coin
I really don't know why the administration doesn't take the "mint the trillion dollar platinum coin" option seriously. It is, as far as I can tell, perfectly legal.
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Fire Bob Costas
I don't have a transcript and for all I know it could've been dumb or wrong or whatever, but apparently Bob Costas said to the football audience that absent a gun a football player probably would not have murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself.
Fire him!
Anyway, whatever one thinks the laws/constitution should be, or what the constitution/laws are, this isn't really debatable. As human beings we're capable of losing our shit, especially if we throw some drugs and alcohol into the mix. If you're a big football playing dude it's probably pretty easy to seriously hurt your less than big girlfriend in a moment of rage, but it's actually pretty hard to kill her. Unless you have a gun.
Fire him!
Anyway, whatever one thinks the laws/constitution should be, or what the constitution/laws are, this isn't really debatable. As human beings we're capable of losing our shit, especially if we throw some drugs and alcohol into the mix. If you're a big football playing dude it's probably pretty easy to seriously hurt your less than big girlfriend in a moment of rage, but it's actually pretty hard to kill her. Unless you have a gun.
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