tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3064894428674008048..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Obama versus Harper, No ComparisonThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89648177627234366932008-12-25T14:56:00.000-08:002008-12-25T14:56:00.000-08:00By the way, Anon, you should read Tom Friedman's c...By the way, Anon, you should read Tom Friedman's column in the NYT to understand the need for infrastructure spending.<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/opinion/24friedman.html?emThe Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45821959575398872482008-12-24T15:16:00.000-08:002008-12-24T15:16:00.000-08:00The Harpocrit's problem is that he has lost his fr...The Harpocrit's problem is that he has lost his friend and mentor, the Chimperor, and with this the far-right economic policies (sic) go down the tubes. Both friend and ideology gone, what can the poor little fellow do, but dither? Should he adopt an infrastructural stimulus package a la Obama, he will be seen by both his hard-line supporters and political enemies as betraying his ideology. Should he do little - as seems to be the situation now - he will be attacked for being ineffective. This is called "being between a rock and a hard place". He better get to enjoy that sensation, cause there will be more of it, until this geek come would-be bully boy is consigned to political oblivion.Larry Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-75693007131968454182008-12-24T12:48:00.000-08:002008-12-24T12:48:00.000-08:00The Americans have certainly taught the world how ...The Americans have certainly taught the world how a nation can spend its way INTO a recession. That's the Milton Friedman school of economics. Now utterly discredited (sorry about that).<BR/><BR/>Then there's the Keynesians, people like Nobel prize economists Joe Stiglitz or Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman. Or John Kenneth Galbraith or Keynes himself.<BR/><BR/>They reveal the difference between spending and strategic investing in infrastructure. Obviously you've never learned the distinction.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-66400363045895209892008-12-24T12:19:00.000-08:002008-12-24T12:19:00.000-08:00You can't spend your way out of a recession.When, ...You can't spend your way out of a recession.<BR/><BR/>When, WHEN will you ever learn that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com