> * Gary Denton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Unlike them I am not paid shills for the American Enterprise Institute > being paid to persuade people that privatized federal savings
To clarify we were discussing: Dr. Kent Smetters (Associate Professor at Wharton, former economist for the Congressional Budget Office 1995-98) http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/smetters.html Dr. Jagadeesh Gokhale (Cato Institute fellow, former senior economic adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) http://www.cato.org/people/gokhale.html Since you like to throw around circumstantial evidence instead of discussing the specific work, here is something for you about Gokhale from the link above: "His latest book, Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities, coauthored with Kent Smetters, drew widespread attention when it was published by AEI after the Bush administration declined to include it in the federal budget document for which it had been commissioned." Anyway, they are obviously qualified to have an expert opinion. You may have partisan disagreements with them, but dismissing them as "paid shills" is hardly persuasive, unless you can show some credentials that qualify you to give an expert opinion. On the other hand, if you presented some specific problems with their facts or methodology, then you could make a more persuasive argument. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
