The super-rich, the 1% of the 1%, those that can afford to finance superPacs Send their children to private schools Live in gated communities Avoid the constraints of HMOs, Medicare, and Medicaid They see no personal benefit from public services, so their taxes should be cut. They are against any public policy that requires...
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Robert HamillPolitics & Government
War Powers Act
A law that is ignored by presidents, unenforced by Congress, and left fallow by the Supreme Court
Meaning of Political
What does it mean when ‘political’ decisions are the rule of the day? That the advantages for your party count more than the advantages for citizens. That the drive to maneuver events to benefit your party rather than to benefit citizens is paramount.
Grand Pursuit – Sylvia Naser
Subtitle – The Story of Economic Genius I’m about ¾ finished. Too much biographic detail, gives context for economic problems arose in, but too much biography obstructing the view of the theory for my taste. Pre-WWI Panics. Slowly, dawning recognition of relationship between falling prices, amount of currency in circulation Post-WWI Hyperinflation. Printing of...
US Course Correction
US course corrections submitted for your consideration. The danger of improper implication is always present.
Caveat Citizen
Since the Great Cleansing, all regulations removed from government
Election Prescriptions
The US is hobbled by an election system which rewards extremism, right and left. Here are some steps that should be taken.
Economic Thinking
There are two levels at which the media presents economic thinking – surface and deep. Surface- headlines, sound bites. Audience – electorate that only pays scant attention to issues they can’t control. They are fully focused on getting through their own lives rather than focused on policy issues Does not address trade-offs or details....
Political mandates
The Republicans used their mandate as a trump card. The Democrats threw theirs into the discard pile.
Deficit Reduction, A Project that is Failing
Every proposal on deficit reduction is at odds with the last greatest proposal. In project development, when every approach is 90 or 180 degrees away from the previous one, that project will fail – and usually be replaced by a band-aid project that has negative, unanticipated consequences.