>>>Ah, er, pardon me, but I really ain't here to conduct a remedial economics course. All the sumbitch does is attack and ask open-ended questions to delay the inevitable revelation of his own stupidity. But if he wants to pay the tuition, I'll answer his questions.

When confronted on the "deny and attack" response, the progressive we not modify his position, but will instead deny and attack even more vigorously, often claiming expert knowledge on the subject, though of course never providing any evidence to support these claims.

You failed to answer my question, did you complete high school?

Look, I'm not going to ask you to debate Austrian vs. Kenyesian schools, but it would be nice to know your general level of understanding.

Thus far you've refused to even define what you mean by "Voodoo." This indicates that you don't know what you mean - you are just repeating a phrase which actually has no meaning at all to you. Which is what I suspected from the start.

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The so called Enron Loophole aside re speculation, cutting taxes during wartime (for mostly the upper brackets) and paying for that war at least 40% of-budget certainly qualifies as voodoo. Lowering interest rates to the point of causing a huge bubble, with the encouragement of otherwise sober thinking conservatives in and out of gummint, can also qualify. (I remember the cons trumpeting the increase in home ownership, wihich is indeed a good thing. Now they say, "Let 'em rent!") Results are a weak dollar (one reason for the oil hikes) and maxed out credit cards, private and gummimental.

manly has cited 5% inflation, which has been low since Reagan's 2nd term, and lowish unemployment, not pointing out what those jobs paid. All them jobs don;t mean shit for folks if they don;t stay ahead of even that low inflation. And before anyone sez that's theliberalmedia's fault, folks know their own "kitchen table" situation.

No, Bush and the GOP were a careless about the tax cuts and the economy as they were Iraq...yes, and with Dem collusion.

Your tag is interesting. Reminds me of what libs said about Reagan, underestimating him and getting beat by him for over 20 years. Be careful you're not making the same mistake about Obama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/op...ml?ref=opinion

Uhm, few of them do. First Nobin, the "enron loophole" was signed into law by Mr Clinton, not Mr Bush. So is Clinton a "voodoo economist"?. Second, getting into a war is a pure Kenysian economic strategy, not "voodoo economics". Cutting taxes during "wartime", could be seen as "voodoo", but these tax cuts were primarily done because of a feared recession, and again would qualify as much for Kenysian than "voodoo".

You're "misunderestimating" me Noib, I'd almost prefer that Obama win.

The economy is going to get battered - fuel prices and the idiocy of ethanol completely fucking under food production ensure that.

Who ever is elected is going to bear the blame for that - it's not right, but that's the way things work in America. If Obama is elected - he'll be the last democrat in office for 20 years to come - bank on it.

I'm voting for Bob Barr - I'm not a fan, but he's better than the other two.

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You know I'm not a Clinton worshiper. His signing of the Telcom Bill was a disgrace. The Loophole, brought to us by McC's man Gramm, was part of an overall package, so I wonder whether Clinton even knew of it. Shame on Bubba (and certainly the GOP Congress) anyway.

We didn't get into this war because of a "it's good for the economy" strategy. And if the cuts were done for fear of a downturn, as you claim, then giving most to the already cash rich is just stupid. Voodoo again and the results have indeed affected oil prices upward.

Is that "progressivese" phrase attributed to George Bush?

Never said that we did get into a war to help the economy, however the point was that such a move is Keynesian and not "voodoo economics". In short, I am challenging your notion that voodoo economics is everything you don't like. Such definitions are invalid.