Break with Reality

[kentuck]

Listening to Bush talk about all the great things we have rebuilt in Iraq strains credibility. We rebuild things that we tear down and then call it progress? We spend American dollars buying textbooks for Iraqi schoolchildren when we have so many inner-city schools in our own country that need this assistance? We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to make the Iraqi economy stronger, Keynesianism gone wild, while they cut food stamps for our own people? Why can someone not point this out?

[Loonman]

1. I could give a tin shit about rebuilt Iraq

Why not make sure people have enough education, food, health care and housing here in America?

[keta11]

2. WTF. This fool is the President of Eye-raq

I bet he has spent more time in the last five years thinking, working on and answeing question about Eye-raq than the USA.

[Daphne08]

3. Yes, what about our own country? New Orleans and the

Gulf Coast?

[Capn Sunshine]

4. Are we going to rebuild the Gulf Coast?

I don't think we have the money.
But Bush has already demonstrated that Americans come second behind a neocon agenda of war for profit.

[BL611]

5. A note on Keynesianism...

There is emerging belief propagated by Joe Stiglitz (who I have tremendous respect for, but believe he was slightly off on this specific nomenclature) that supply side economics is a form of Keynesianism because it allows for deficit spending, however just because there is defecit spending does not make a prescription inherently Keynesian, to be Keynes it must be focused on stimulating the DEMAND side of the economy- which supply side as its name indicates does not...

[kentuck]

6. Good point...

Only the deficit spending is similar to Keynesianism - but it's done from the "supply-side".