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this is an awful lot of shucking and jiving and empty conservative blah blah blah to avoid he simple facts of the matter. supply side/monetarist policies are what got the economy into this wreck of a situation. they have nothing to offer as a way out.
supply siders cannot even bring themselves to talk about allocation of resources because they'd run into the military problem. it's not an exaggeration to think that all this conservative economic hooey is really just a smoke screen the function of which is to keep political pressure away from cutting defense spending. this is only possible if conservatives control conversations about the economy.
i see no reason to take conservative economic ideology seriously so there's no reason to cede control of the discussion to them.
i see nothing from ace, nothing from dogzilla that even remotely begins to address unemployment. ace obssesses about fantasy tax questions; dogzilla is focused only on repeating the conservative meme-of-the-moment about obama's stimulus package, as if the economic disaster we're still moving through originated on obama's watch when ANYONE who is not lying to themselves knows that this turd is a conservative turd which began forming in earnest around 2002 and which squeezed out onto all of us in 2007.
ever since, conservatives have been running away from their own record.
it's a pretty patronizing thing, assuming people are too stupid to remember what actually happened.
but apparently there are some for whom conservative counter-reality is compelling.
which brings us back to the psychology today piece.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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