"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 2nd, 2010
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: US Manufacturing Is Not Dead. Bondad at 538 takes on the notion that US manufacturing job are gone (and aren’t’ coming back) because free trade agreements like NAFTA allowed US markets to be flooded with cheap foreign goods. He literally graphs the issues to death. The main point appears to be [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 2nd, 2010
The New Yorker points out that despite bitching and moaning to the contrary the Senate Health Care bill is bipartisan: …the Democrats’ bill more closely resembles Richard Nixon’s health-care proposal—the one that Ted Kennedy went to his grave regretting he hadn’t embraced—than it does Bill Clinton’s, to say nothing of Harry Truman’s. Nor are all [...]
Date: 04/11/2006