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"Are our leaders

Richard Day — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:05:54 +0000

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"Are our leaders incompetent...or just pretending?" I see lots of the ignorance as artfully willful and cynical.

For some reason I am really struck by this line Stardust.

I have hundreds of examples but Rick Perry is most recent that comes to mind. He is running around saying his administration has created a surplus in his state's budget. The truth is that his state is running last in education and has created a 25 billion dollar deficit. He refuses to tax the rich and he has once again gutted his educational budget.

Bachmann is educated and yet she gives historical lectures that are as bad as Beck's.

I do know this. Since we are all but poor players who strut and fret....we become the characters we create for social success. At least our attempts at social success and we get lost in those characters.

Best political line I have read in a long time!

Should have remembered to say

we are stardust — Sat, 28 May 2011 12:54:19 +0000

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Should have remembered to say that monetary policy is far more complex and debatable than fiscal policy.

But still, the more I think about it, so many brilliant thinkers I know are moral and practical, though maybe he's thinking of people who only live in their heads and distrust other more visceral knowledge in combination. Or something.

Sorry I don't have time to

we are stardust — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:57:44 +0000

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Sorry I don't have time to read the Charlton piece, so I can't say on the whole if his theory holds a lot of water. But I often think in that in terms of our leaders, it isn't a case of not understanding an issue to find coherent and optimal solutions, but rather the need for the solution being antithetical to what policy/policies they desire to enrich themselves or their ilk, then working backward to either find faux-evidence to support them, or deconstruct actual evidence that exists that would make their stated positions...silly.

I mean if there is one sickening thing afoot still in the financial sector, it's that trickle-down economics have been thoroughly discredited: we have the facts and charts to show it. And yet, here we are with Wall Street and GDP numbers booming again, corporations making fabulous profits, and real unemployment at 18% or something.

Incoherent that so many still pretend to believe what they profess to believe.

Washingtonsblog had this piece up on "Are our leaders incompetent...or just pretending?" I see lots of the ignorance as artfully willful and cynical.

"Has it ever occured to you

Resistance — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:40:40 +0000

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"Has it ever occured to you that you might be wrong"

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