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"Harvard makes mistakes too,

Michael Maiello — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:38:00 +0000

In reply to None needed. My brother is an

"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there." - Woody Allen

Every GOP economic/tax cut

NCD — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 22:21:21 +0000

Every GOP deregulation/economic/tax cut/trade proposal, including the 31 page one cleverly released today by the Trump 'team', not only pays for itself but is touted to immediately trickle billions or trillions down from corporate coffers to create hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs. In places like Flint, which the Trump plan actually mentions........Atlantic City is apparently beyond the scope of Trumpian resurrection.

Unsurprisingly the Trump economists cite Hillary as a guilty conspirator behind rust belt job losses.

The fact that over 20+ years of GOP policy and presidencies never did anything for Flint, or that the GOP wanted to bury GM for good in 2008 when the Republican administration crashed the economy, is, of necessity, never broached.

Smart or stupid,

ocean-kat — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:53:05 +0000

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Smart or stupid, knowledgeable or ignorant, able to remember or forgetful. There's something happening here and I just don't know how to explain it. I've read a dozen different articles with a dozen different explanations and none of the answers seem big enough for the size of the question.

Here's one example, one out of many I could choose. How many times do we need to try giving tax cuts to the rich to learn the only sensible republican president in my life time was right when labeled Reagan's economic plan voo doo economics and told us it wouldn't work? When Brownback tried his grand experiment and it once again was a grand failure one would think the people would learn. But no. They re-elected him for another term.

Was that smart or stupid? Did they know that Brownback's experiment with tax cuts for the rich had bankrupted the state without producing any increase in investment, jobs, or state GDP? Or were they ignorant? Did they remember the numerous times governments have cut taxes for the rich without seeing any increase in growth, or did they forget?

I'll grant you that the average person is not stupid. That they are capable of increasing their knowledge. They can remember extraordinary amounts of data. The potential is there but unfortunately the subjects they choose to study and the data they file away in their memory isn't the data that's needed to make sound election or public policy choices. One cannot be forgetful and remember the names and data of most of the major football and basketball teams and most of the players. One can't be stupid and compare the stats on their favorite players. The average person can wax rhapsodically, long and sustained, on their favorite tv shows and movies. But that information isn't what's needed to make a wise choice for the next president, congress person, or senator of the US.

None needed. My brother is an

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:45:48 +0000

In reply to Ivy grads can be stupid, and

None needed. My brother is an Ivy grad.

Ivy grads can be stupid, and

Doctor Cleveland — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:30:23 +0000

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Ivy grads can be stupid, and I can provide all the proof you'll ever need.

Thanks, G.

Doctor Cleveland — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:58:01 +0000

In reply to Doc, I corrected the spelling

Thanks, G.

Doc, I corrected the spelling

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:55:02 +0000

In reply to Thinking: Not Just for "Elites"

Doc, I corrected the spelling of "thimking" in the title--assuming that it was an error and not deliberate. I know you working-class rust-belt types aren't too bright, but we've got standards here at dagblog.