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Re: Who Didn’t Know?

Josh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:37:38 -0000

I agree that his larger point is valid, although the reader can easily be sidetracked by the populist references.

It is funny how we were both right about the about the economic mess a few years ago. You were screaming about the house of cards, and I said the Federal government would come to the rescue (even though they shouldn't).

Re: Who Didn’t Know?

cosmictap — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:59:10 -0000

So let’s address the actual message - which is that this whole thing was foreseeable. You know that; you and I had conversations about it years before it came unraveled.

Re: Who Didn’t Know?

Josh — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:28:31 -0000

What I said was he was repeating a liberal lie, not that he was a liberal.

Re: Who Didn’t Know?

cosmictap — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:27:56 -0000

Give me a break, Josh. Now Parker Palmer is a liberal?

Re: Who Didn’t Know?

Josh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:10:30 -0000

"Who didn’t know a system that makes the rich richer while the poor get poorer would someday face a curtain call" -- Really, I've heard this absurd liberal lie way too long. This is nothing more that class warfare rhetoric. Mankiw's discussed the "real wage decline" issue awhile ago:
http://gregmankiw.blogspot....