The battle is joined. With Ohio as the first front line, President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney on Thursday used dueling speeches to make the case for their economic plans. The essential difference: higher taxes for the rich. Obama wants ’em; Romney opposes. What do you want in an economic plan?
Poll: Whose Vision of Economic Solution Makes Most Sense for America?
President Obama and Mitt Romney used Ohio platform to explain their approaches to fix.
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borderraven June 19, 2013 at 07:07 am
California seriously needs Republicans to return and reclaim the 55 Electoral votes this state…Read More represents to the presidential elections. Three Democratic cities are bankrupt and more are threatened.
Terrell Bell June 8, 2013 at 01:58 pm
I'd say the recent events against which they were protesting are far more consequential than a…Read More freeway traffic back-up. Just a guess.
Sage Naumann June 8, 2013 at 04:49 pm
How did they cause a backup, exactly? I'm asking because I saw them, and am wondering how they…Read More backed it up. If it's because people were slowing to read the signs, you can't really get mad at them for that.
BlueAngel2 June 7, 2013 at 09:25 pm
I stopped using Internet Explorer years ago. Firefox is safer and the possibility of getting a…Read More virus is much less. I have no issues with Firefox.
Bobbie Henry June 8, 2013 at 08:04 am
And if you use an IPAD early in the day as I do, the problem is that there is so much on each page…Read More that it is hard to scroll with your finger(s) because there is just so much clutter that you keep losing your story to an annoying ad.
borderraven June 8, 2013 at 06:25 am
Obama, illegal immigration, IRS, NSA, whatever you want to protest, we have the venue. Bring your…Read More sign or borrow ours, bring a flag, water, sunscreen, snacks, cameras, ...
BTW, I am a conservative who supports the concepts of the Tea Party and am proud of it. I don't try to hide it.
probably as many as i disagree with the tea party about.. doug
;-)
This is a trick question for you. Do you want to go backward to the failed financial policies of the past administration that put us in the economic ditch we are currently and ever so steadily pulling ourselves out of, or......move forward to the future where all Americans have an equal opportunity to pursue their financial dreams? Clue: You have to look to the past before you can understand where you should go in the future.
I do wish I could agree with you on your assessment of "the majority of american voters". Sadly I see most hard working middle class folks who continually vote against themselves. They don't take the time necessary to understand the political issues that affect their lives, especially those who have to hold down more than one job, raise a family, and worry about the bills and paying the mortgage/rent, etc. The only time they have is to watch negative TV ads, Faux News, read a very biased UT, listen to conservative radio....poor resources of information. Also I see an inability to do any critical thinking, perhaps as a result of lack of education. But then, that's another subject.
Drum roll, please... "There's a lot to be said for not being Obama." By "Dianne."
My trick answer is "jobless recovery."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddAi8FF3F4 Watch out Selina! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0mjG9-CA3w
http://youtu.be/DBFvwv2IrJo
Jobless recovery...
"Among the financial and business experts advising Romney’s campaign are Columbia University’s R. Glenn Hubbard and Harvard University’s N. Gregory Mankiw, both economists who headed the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. Rounding out the team are former Missouri Senator Jim Talent and onetime Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber, now Republican lobbyists at Washington-based firms." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-07/romney-economic-outsider-image-backed-by-bush-era-policy.html
http://youtu.be/DBFvwv2IrJo
Rgrds-Ross
"...as Romney works to frame the election as a question of whether people are satisfied with the economy under President Barack Obama, Democrats are determined to define a vote for Romney as a return to Bush’s policies, and they point to the economic team as evidence of that... “They might want to read his policies,” [Hubbard] said in an interview. “It’s actually quite different. The ad hominem doesn’t seem appropriate.... Romney aides say the campaign’s policies come from the candidate.... And the candidate doesn’t always agree with his advisers. “Given what he’s done in the business world, he knows what he believes works,” said Andy Puzder, the CEO of Carpinteria, California-based CKE Restaurants Inc., who helped craft Romney’s business-regulation policy. “And sometimes he knows better than the policy team.” Romney also consults a network of associates in the business world. Former Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Scott McNealy, Hewlett-Packard President and CEO Meg Whitman, and Puzder, whose company owns the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains, all wrote sections of Romney’s jobs plan. “Sometimes business people see things happening faster than economists do,” said Hubbard. Hubbard briefs Romney every few weeks...The candidate typically arrives well-read and ready to quiz the team on their latest proposals. “Does he agree with every person all the time?” asked Hubbard. “No. But that’s a good thing.”
http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/poll-whose-vision-of-economic-solution-makes-most-sense-for-america#comment_3639314 It blew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPL4-VKAfgA
Keynes didn't expect that governments would eventually balance their budgets and Keynesians didn't adopt the ideas of Abba Lerner because they make this explicit and Keynesian models never call for tax cuts and Greg Mankiw who Jennifer Spencer doesn't like because he advised George Bush isn't a neo-Keynesian and on April 11 1946 Keynes didn't meet Henry Clay at the Bank of England and say to him about trying to fix England's post-war economic problems: "I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago."
http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/poll-should-u-s-forces-be-sent-to-save-syrians-from-slaughter#comment_3639458 And hey remember when Robert Paulson thought he could fool the censors by replacing the letter "s" with "$" when he used his pottymouth and Doug Curlee had to tell Robert Paulson to knock it off even though TIL and Kevin and Tom constantly badger Doug because Doug Curlee is man enough to take the ribbing and professional enough to understand the schtick but Robert Paulson's clever plan didn't fool the Patch and his comment got deleted along with Doug Curlee's call for civility? One two.
I would be grateful if you would refer to me as Tom. It's difficult for me to know if you are talking to me or a cat.
you really don't need to do that so much..:-) doug
Keynes, if you bother to actually read his writing, thought that balancing a budget in the face of a collapse in aggregate demand was a bad idea. Every time that this has been tried as a policy it has failed. If you want to claim that correlation is not causation, that's reasonable, but I'd rather go with policies that have some correlation with results than what Romney proposes which have no correlation with results. Better an idea that might work rather than one which has failed time and time again. I think that we actually both agree that we need to cut entitlement spending and not raise taxes. To me this can easily be done by simply reforming the tax code and getting rid of every single preference item and letting the market dictate how people choose to spend their money. That's not the same thing at all as basing your economic plan on reducing taxes for rich people or claiming that you can generate trillions of economic benefits by eliminating unnecessary regulation. Not at all.
http://naturalresources.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=296737
An article came out recently: Beyond the Big Lie: The Education Deficit and the New Authoritarianism_Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "The American public is suffering from an education deficit. By this I mean it exhibits a growing inability to think critically, question authority, be reflective, weigh evidence, discriminate between reasoned arguments and opinions, listen across differences and engage the mutually informing relationship between private problems and broader public issues. This growing political and cultural illiteracy is not merely a problem of the individual, one that points to simple ignorance. It is a collective and social problem that goes to the heart of the increasing attack on democratic public spheres and supportive public institutions that promote analytical capacities, thoughtful exchange and a willingness to view knowledge as a resource for informed modes of individual and social agency. One of the major consequences of the current education deficit and the pervasive culture of illiteracy that sustains it is what I call the ideology of the big lie - which propagates the myth that the free-market system is the only mechanism to ensure human freedom and safeguard democracy."