National Review Applauds Poverty, Blames Debt on Progressivism

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from the Progressive:




National Review Applauds Poverty, Blames Debt on Progressivism
By Matthew Rothschild, July 12, 2010


William F. Buckley’s old magazine is still fighting to discredit Robert La Follette and Progressivism.

On July 8, on National Review’s website, Tiffany Jones Miller writes a long story entitled “The Progressives’ Legacy of Bankruptcy.”

She starts off by decrying the national debt, without even mentioning the spending spree on war that George W. Bush took the country on.

Nor does she acknowledge the arguments of Nobel Prize-winners Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz, or those of economist James Galbraith, who all point out that the national debt is not the catastrophe that the Chicken Littles on the Right make it out to be.

No, this Chicken Little squawks like all the others about Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, the very programs that provide some semblance of comfort to the vast majority of elderly or disabled Americans. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/wx071210.html

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1. We've been under Trickle Down for 30 years.

Tiffany et al. should be asked when, exactly will any of this actually trickle down? How much longer do we have to wait before we get this windfall from the rich? Why is it always too early to declare it bullshit?

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2. Someone needs to pie "Tiff" nt

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3. weren't things wonderful before the Progressives ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8755834

"The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.

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Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone..."

Yes life was wonderful before Big Government got involved...