RE: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-25 Thread Lisa & Ian Murray
Maxster, Does AG's claim of: "In contrast, the experience of the past five to seven years has been truly without recent precedent. The doubling of the growth rate of output per hour has caused individuals' real taxable income to grow nearly 2-1/2 times as fast as it did over the preceding ten y

Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-26 Thread Brad DeLong
>Greenspan's testimony today is a remarkable >departure from his operational, hard-right >conservative mode. It's like a mini-Ayn Rand >burst out of his chest, a la Alien. > >I do not refer to his acquiesence to tax cuts. >This was not unexpected, merely a sign of his >political scruples. Boy, i

Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-26 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
I think, frankly, he is scared shitless. Lawrence Lindsay (Lindsey?) hates his guts and has Dubya's ear, who has heard nothing good from his old man about Big Al. And, Dubya was the old man's enforcer at the White House from what I hear, the ultimate keeper tracker of who's been naughty and n

Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-27 Thread Margaret Coleman
Max Sawicky wrote: <<>>Great image!Max Sawicky also wrote: <<<>>I think there is another point here besides being pro-Republican and coming up with a bullshit line to support the tax cut. I think Al, and others, are looking for a way not to cut the treasury debt because by restructuring the debt

Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-27 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
>Also known as lobbying. Also known as the committee system in Congress >through which lobbying frequently takes place. Also known as supposedly >independent regulatory commissions staffed by people recruited from the >industries allegedly being regulated. > >No, we liberalish types aren't bitte

RE: RE: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-25 Thread Max Sawicky
. . . jibe with M & B's latest S of WA? If not where's AG getting his data from? [sorry, haven't got my copy of it yet] mbs: Where are saying there is a contradiction? Remember, taxable income is a much narrower category than anything in GDP. Can I get paid to say this crap, especially the seco

RE: Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-26 Thread Lisa & Ian Murray
> > He's a Randite. He's always been a Randite. Conditional on the > government's size being fixed, he's in favor of budget surpluses. But > give him an opening where he thinks there's an opportunity to shrink > the government permanently, and he'll go for it. > > And he is really, really sc

RE: Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-26 Thread Charles Brown
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/01 12:40PM >>> > > He's a Randite. He's always been a Randite. Conditional on the > government's size being fixed, he's in favor of budget surpluses. But > give him an opening where he thinks there's an opportunity to shrink > the government permanently, and he'l

Re: Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-26 Thread Jim Devine
At 02:11 PM 1/26/01 -0500, you wrote:  Dubya was the old man's enforcer at the White House from what I hear, the ultimate keeper tracker of who's been naughty and nice, I thought that Dubya was too busy trading Sammy Sosa to the Cubs and things like that when Bush pére was President. Jim Devine

Re: Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-27 Thread Brad DeLong
>Max Sawicky wrote: ><<>> >Great image! Great, great image!

RE: RE: RE: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-25 Thread Lisa & Ian Murray
. . . jibe with M & B's latest S of WA? If not where's AG getting his data from? [sorry, haven't got my copy of it yet] mbs: Where are saying there is a contradiction? Remember, taxable income is a much narrower category than anything in GDP. *** I can't make out your fir

Re: RE: Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-26 Thread Peter Dorman
A propos, everyone should get their hands on the New York Times article yesterday on Monsanto and the regulation of GM foods. It provides a useful perspective on who calls the shots, and who benefits from (at least this) regulation. Peter Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: > > And he is really, really s

Re: RE: Re: Al Goes Wacky

2001-01-27 Thread Jeffrey L. Beatty
At 03:57 PM 1/26/01 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/26/01 12:40PM >>> > >> >> He's a Randite. He's always been a Randite. Conditional on the >> government's size being fixed, he's in favor of budget surpluses. But >> give him an opening where he thinks there's an oppor