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Right, which ought to tell you about how corporate media regurgitates the irrelevant vomit coming from the right wing noise machine.

Are you now claiming that your type of neanderthal isn't responsible for the human and fiscal fiasco created by the war on drugs?

Regressives always try to rewrite history because they don't want to be held accountable for the mess they made and they also try to pretend their solutions aren't the same old garbage that got us into trouble in the first place.

If people like you hadn't genuflected daily at the altar of Reagan and his war on drugs + 3 strike laws, many fewer people would be imprisoned for drug offenses. It's a little late now to grow an understanding of how jailing many people requires a big state and costs lots of money.

I can tell from all these neanderthals attacking my person that I must be doing something right.

in other words, regressives starved the beast (bankrupted the state), then they turned around and said: see, even Democrats have to cut spending. Freakin' clowns! No credibility whatsoever.

which confirms that your provincialism and cherry picking aren't consistent with proper methodology to draw lessons relevant to the national scale. so? is it supposed to be news that establishment Democrats have implemented regressive polices for decades now?

Schoolteachers Driving Cadillacs by Paul Krugman Jonathan Chait Cohn tells us that public-sector employees are the new welfare queens. Quite: any time you try to talk about the fiscal plight of state and local government, you get spittle-flecked denunciations of unions and their crazy pay packages. So, how much truth is there to this? State and local employees are paid more, on average, than private-sector workers — about 13 percent more, according to this analysis by John Schmitt. But as Schmitt shows, that’s an apples and oranges comparison: state and local workers are much better educated and somewhat older than private-sector workers, and once you correct for that the comparison actually seems to go the other way. I think the easy way to think about this is to realize that about half of state and local workers are teachers and academic administrators — which means that they’re college-educated, at minimum. And think about it: how many ambitious young people do you know saying, “My goal in life is to become a high school teacher — that would put me on easy street”? Yes, firefighters and police get pretty generous pay packages; they also pull people from burning buildings. And here’s a point I haven’t seen made: even if you believe that the age-and-education-adjusted calculations are wrong, and public employees do get paid somewhat more than they “should”, how big a deal is that? I went to the Census state and local finance data, and got this picture of the composition of non-federal government spending: A few percent either way in workers’ compensation would not make a big difference to state and local spending. This is a phony issue. Of course, so were the welfare queens. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/schoolteachers-driving-cadillacs/

billcoe doesn't like it when someone exposes his sleazy attacks on public employees and their unions. Billcoe must think he is being "nice" when he claims that public employees are responsible for the budget deficit and their contracts should be torn up, fuckwit!

Examples of the relationship between heritage, cato, AEI, etc .. and corporations/wealthy donors? It's not a secret and it has been going on for decades. It's all in the open that plutocrats like the Kock brothers, Coors, Scaiffe, etc .. finance these outfits to spew propaganda. Just point your search engine to find how many 10's of millions the billionaires Kock spend on think tanks that happen to justify their nasty politics. here is one article about the Kochs:Two Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers Are Remaking America for Their Own Benefit

The "conspiracy theory" meme is all you've got to respond to the charge that rich plutocrats and corporations finance at a 100% the Heritage foundation, CATO, AEI, CEI, and countless other propaganda outfits touted as "think tanks" that make up those "studies" that are repeatedly found wanting, distorting the evidence, cherry-picking data, and outright lying?

It's well known that regressives create their own reality. They just reach out to their favorite oligarchy-funded "think tank" that'll spew the "study" to fit their talking points: death panels, systematic denial of science, public workers being responsible for the fiscal crisis, ... ad-continuum fucking nonsense. They aren't called wingnuts for nothing.

IN your regressive fantasy, the public sector would be run like the private sector and all the money would be sucked by upper management/investors and there would be little left for services provided by teachers, city workers, nurses, etc .. There is nothing as inefficient to provide the public good as an unregulated private sector. just one of the most obvious example of your hypocrisy. Taking the profit factor out of health care is one of the most efficient way to decrease the deficit (or prevent it's blowing up) but instead, here you are, reproaching teachers and nurses their hard earned pensions.

bullshit How is it that you are defending corporate shills who regurgitate "think tank" propaganda paid for by the oligarchy? or is jackass contesting that said think tanks are paid in full by his corporate masters?

You've not rebutted a single point Jay has made. You can't. This is why most refrain from entertaining anything you say with a serious argument. You're not worth it. Jay regurgitated a piece of propaganda put out by "think tanks" funded by corporate interests and extremely wealthy individuals afflicted by the looter syndrome.

Did I forget to mention these very same think tanks are the architects of the policies that destroyed the real economy, relentlessly attacked governmental institution, promoted deregulation, wars of aggression, etc? One has to be seriously deluded to believe anything coming out of these propaganda outlets.

It is a claim because you haven't provided any comprehensive analysis showing as you claimed that government wasted resources and acted contrary to public interest, or at least anymore than the private sector would.

As I said, would be academics from right wing think tanks (although you didn't provide the link I found out that your write up is from the Heritage foundation and the American enterprise institute, 2 of the most rabidly regressive propaganda outfits) want us to take at face value their very special analysis of government data.

making claims is easy. Actually substantiating your claims is an entirely different matter, and cherry picking data is never going to get you there.

are you telling us that once again right wing think tanks full of charlatans produce studies that support regressive propaganda? in other words, lots of vague arm waving but no real argument that counters the Baker piece.

what tripe! everybody is for using tax revenues as efficiently as possible can deliver them with the public interest in mind and not that of shareholders! what about fighting your wars? funny how the "free market" zealots don't mention anymore the $900 hammers now that we buy them from Halliburton under your fantasy, nobody but the upper 10% would earn a living wage.

More baseless whining and lies about the cost of public employees but still nothing about the banksters and their Washington stooges who broke the economy or the ruinous geopolitical wars of aggression ... no credibility whatsoever!