The core argument of the hysterical Republican diatribe against Obamacare is that it will push Americans down a slippery slope into the nightmare of, gasp, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE! The phrase regularly trips from the lips of GOP reactionaries. Here’s Texas Senator…
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Larry Summers and the Economists’ “Greed Exception”
by jeff.faux •
It is said that the late economist Milton Friedman was once asked how much money it would take for him to change his position that humans are primarily motivated by greed, which was at the core of Friedman’s free-market fundamentalism.…
Best for Obama: Lose Syria Vote
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On the merits, Barack Obama has already lost the Congress on his proposal to intervene in the Syrian Civil War. What’s left is an argument on the politics. The White House’s message to Democrats is that rejection will doom the…
Americans Are War-Weary, But Washington Is Not
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Barack Obama’s arguments for pushing the United States into the Syrian Civil war make little sense to most Americans. It seems clear that poison gas was used in Syria on August 21. Not so clear is who used it, and…
Fifty Years Later: How Far Have We Marched?
by jeff.faux •
The March on Washington 50 years ago was the first of many I would make — for civil rights: against one war, then another; against poverty and low wages; for women’s rights; for gun control; for the environment; and now…