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Post by jeffolie on Jul 22, 2007 16:41:45 GMT -6
"Hillary Clinton just gave a speech the other day about her view on the economy. She said we have been an on-your-own society. She said it's time to get rid of that and replace that with shared responsibility and we're-in-it-together society," Romney told the crowd. "That's out with Adam Smith and in with Karl Marx." apnews.myway.com/article/20070722/D8QHSQQ81.htmlNow that is a inflamatory sound bite that might get picked up by the main stream media.
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Post by blueneck on Jul 22, 2007 17:40:32 GMT -6
More like out with Freidmann and in with Keynes. that would be the correct analogy
Romney is obiviously grabbing headlines doing the republican thingy in going for the pithy soundbite - regardless that it is complete hyperbole
Mitt is nothing like his old man, who was anti Vietnam war and pro civil rights, and was considered a very moderate republican. George must be spinning in his grave
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jul 22, 2007 21:48:32 GMT -6
More like out with Freidmann and in with Keynes. that would be the correct analogy That would be fine with me if true. But I'm afraid Hillary is closer to (Thomas) Friedman than she is to Keynes. (Though she's nothing like Karl Marx.) But Romney looks like a died-in-the-wool, NeoCon-Artist, with a little Mormanism thrown in. Romney's more like an Arthur Laugher Laffer. Romney is obiviously grabbing headlines doing the republican thingy in going for the pithy soundbite - regardless that it is complete hyperbole The Republicans' specialty is meaningless sound-bites. I'm waiting for Romney's "be scared-- be very, very scared" sound-bite, or at least its equivalent. Romney's only strong points are that he's not John McCain or Rudy Ghouliani. After that, he's got nothing.
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Post by blueneck on Jul 23, 2007 4:23:34 GMT -6
Or the fact that his stands on most issues have only very nuanced differences from Hillary if any difference at all
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Post by blueneck on Jul 23, 2007 17:22:00 GMT -6
Ah yes, the cockamamie theories that govt revenue increases when taxes are decreased. Based on a very slim coincidence of some revenue curves following tax curves, that when dug deeper you find there were other factors and circumstances involved.
Laffer's "laughable" theories so defy any logic that even many right wing economists and politicians have quietly backed away from them.
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Post by proletariat on Jul 24, 2007 8:12:29 GMT -6
Sounds like he got this through Hannity's attack that Hillary is the second coming of Marx. Much of this is because of a self suppressed thesis on Saul Alinsky.
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