Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Story here. Paul Krugman speaks on behalf of the liberals.
Kind of interesting. From what I can make out, you have something called the “economy” and then you have government spending. Krugman is afraid the economy is too weak to withstand this hiccup in government spending. Now, conservatives are afraid the economy is too weak to withstand the withering effects of higher taxes. Princeton Professor Krugman, to the contrary, thinks higher taxes are just the ticket because in addition to the “economy” being in danger from the government-not-spending-money, the government is in danger of running out of this money.
So we have the economy, we have the government spending money, we have the money the government has to spend…we have higher taxes on the rich. Conservatives think the taxes on the rich need to come down, in order to help the economy. Liberals think the government has to spend money in order to help the economy. I’m entertaining the notion that maybe we’re quibbling about different definitions of an “economy” here without realizing it. I’m not too sure about that — but here’s one thing I am sure of. If I’m one of those rich guys, I’m going to change my investment strategies if taxes go up on the profits I make from my more successful investments. And that just might have an impact on the economy, I think…and on the tax revenues too. Because hey, if I just convert it all into gold ingots and lock it in a vault, there isn’t much tax revenue involved in that, right?
In fact, I would argue we’re already seeing the effects of this in terms of labor, payrolls, unemployment…and stuff…we have businesses doing their darndest to figure out how to keep functioning without hiring anybody. Why, because they’re evil? Probably not that; if you think businesses are evil, it follows that they always have been that way, whereas this higher unemployment rate is kind of an Obama-era thing.
But Krugman is right about the government running out of money. We just had a piece of shutdown drama, and we’ll probably have another one later this year. That must mean it’s a problem.
So in view of the fact that there’s so little time between the shutdown drama, and the U.S. income tax filing deadline, I figure there is only one thing to do. The Blog That Nobody Reads hereby issues a challenge to all progressives who agree with Paul Krugman, to waive their refunds this tax year. So the government doesn’t run out of money, and it can spend more, thereby saving this nebulous conceptual thing you progressives are trying to describe by using this word “economy.”
I don’t think it’s what everybody else is trying to describe with that word. But whatever it is, it must be something really important to you. So show us how important it really is. A little money where the ol’ mouth is.
Ya gotta admit, it’s a little awkward for you to be talking the same way Professor Krugman is, and then just a few short days later, claiming a refund from exactly the same treasury you’re afraid is going to run out of money. I mean, why would you do that? “Because it’s mine”? or “Because they owe it to me”? Property rights for thee but not for anybody else, eh? Stick to your own knitting; just waive the damn refund. You’ll be able to save enough dimes and nickels to watch Fahrenheit 911 or The Color Purple one more time, plenty soon enough.
Update: Ready for another video about whether we have a revenue problem or a spending problem? Once again, it’s not looking good for the “revenue problem” folks.
From Reason TV, by way of Ed Morrissey.
Once again: That web site for voluntary contributions to help reduce the public debt, is right here. Click it now, click it often, send it off to your wealthy left-wing friends who are losing sleep at night from not getting taxed enough. Since “everybody agrees” with this, there must be a lot of people in that camp.
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- “The Economy” | Washington Rebel | Economy | 04/11/2011 @ 10:44I’m entertaining the notion that maybe we’re quibbling about different definitions of an “economy” here without realizing it.
Bingo. Switch out “economy” with…. well, just about any other hot-button word, and you’ve summed up 90% of the liberal/conservative divide. Basically, one side thinks that words mean what they mean, and the other side throws temper tantrums.
For instance, the other day I tried conversing with a leftist colleague about the situation in Wisconsin. I can’t reproduce verbatim what he said — I’m not really sure how to spell words like “heteronormativity” and “metapraxis” — but it was a lot of verbal squid ink. My response, on the other hand, was always some variant of: “dude, there’s No. More. Money. What part of “there’s no more money” don’t you understand?”
It didn’t go well, needless to say… but I’m still at a loss as to what part of “there’s no more money” is so blessed hard to understand. Has Krugman ever written a column about that?
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