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[Big Government] » The U.S. Economy Needs Fewer Public School Jobs, Not More - Big ...: unions have created millions of unproductive jobs that were never justified in the first place and that have been a terrible drain on the U.S. economy.  With the nation $13 trillion in debt and many state governments looking at red ink for years to come, we just can’t afford to perpetuate their mistake any longer.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: A Closer Look at First ...: There are a few Republicans with the integrity to admit Bush's policies were an utter disaster -- but they generally claim the solution now would be to do more of them (i.e., further deregulation and tax cuts) rather than to have avoided them in the first place, or to take any actual effective corrective steps (stimulus, jobs programs, realistic progressive taxation, pay-go, Health Care Reform, alternative energy investment, infrastructure investment, etc.)

[Swampland] Today In Economic Grimness - Swampland - TIME.com: Uh, square, don't know what your day job is, but I don't need you to explain economic stimulus to me. You seem to have swallowed zechman's Third Way hooey wholesale, which is your brainwashed prerogative, but you have no idea how pushing close to a trillion dollars out the door in "shovel-ready" projects is hard to do in real life.

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] News just in: the future is cancelled | LabourList.org 2.0.2 ...: I think buy-to-let itself has had relatively littleeffect on first time buyers here. I also think this has had little effect on why buy to let became popular - I'd say it has far more to do with the demand for housing given the lack of availablesocial housing, and private landlords stepped in to fill a gap.

[Big Government] » Government: Destroying Your Wealth a Trillion Dollars at a Time ...: But the current financial practices are worsening the problem when I believe Bush would have, by now, reversed course and increased revenue (this part is confusing to some) by cutting corporate tax (thus creating jobs) or by instituting (finally) a flat tax that exempted NO ONE (excepting, of course, non-earners.) Of course, there are still the obvious spending cuts we could have implemented, but we've talked that issue to death to the point that EVERYONE has heard it. Of course, the unpopular but practically correct point here is that the cuts would have to come mostly from social security.

[The Washington Independent] Bernanke Gets Behind 2nd Stimulus Bill « The Washington Independent: particularly if the new spending prevents cuts in state services or restores programs already slashed. He cautioned, though, against “compensating [states] for past spending or putting money in the rainy-day fund, because that doesn’t help the current situation.”

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Why the Republicans Could Still Lose in November: Instead of saying blacks can’t make it in the GOP, and talking about how the GOP hasn’t done a very good job of giving people, especially blacks, a reason to vote for them, Steele should be saying that there is a great deal of potential in the GOP for a black candidate or voter to make a positive difference, not only for themselves, but for the country. He seems focused on what the GOP is doing and has done badly, rather than on the positive potential and upside.

[The Money Game] Pelosi: We Have The Votes On Healthcare: Even if you tell the truth *and* the plan takes you, the costs - e.g., the premium - may be too high, the benefits too low, or etc. In such a situation, what happens, oftentimes, is the individual decides to do without or go for the bare minimum.

[Pam's House Blend - Front Page] Pam's House Blend:: Robert Gibbs finally admits the Obama Admin ...: If Government can ban speech because it doesn't like the viewpoint, i.e., content (rather than, say, the time-place-and-manner), it isn't a stretch to see a ban on LGBT advocacy if some future state or Federal government decides it's "harmful to society". This, apparently, was what drove the court to an 8-1 decision, made even Chief Justice Roberts see a First Amendment threat.

[WitnessLA.com] WitnessLA.com » Blog Archive » Tuesday Round-Up: Former Kansas Republican Party chairman Kris Kobach told rally-goers the gathering was different from the others in that participants recognized the relationship between policies put in place by President Barack Obama’s administration and the influx of illegal aliens into this country. (End clip.

[Cara Community - Comments] Bill Cara's Blog for May 28, 2010 [See post-close report] | Cara ...: "The diamond invention””the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem””is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is Kennedy still haunted by ...: An education system so poor that it no longer empowers the poor to achieve according to their talents? The end of social mobility, instead creating a self-perpetuating oligarchy of the middle class?

[Brad Setser: Follow the Money] Brad Setser: Follow the Money » Blog Archive » Chieuropa?: Despite all the talk about globalization as an irresistible trend of progress, the priority for the United States in the final analysis has been to advance its superpower economic objectives, not its obligations as the center of the global monetary system. This superpower economic objective includes the global expansion of US economic dominance through dollar hegemony, reducing all domestic economies, including that of the US, to be merely local units of a global empire.

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