Now that takes real courage -- he's telling tens of millions of Americans with serious medical problems to vote for him so that he can dismantle the health-insurance system and then to trust him to put something workable in its place.
Maybe he should rename his campaign bus the Crazy Talk Express.
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In an entertaining (slightly sarcastic) manner, Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, offers his take on a potpourri of economic trends and posturings by politicians. He also has a blog at the Prospect, Beat the Press, with commentary on press coverage of economic issues (http://www.prospect.org/cs/blogs/beat_the_press)
A funny overview of the nation's economic woes. Baker gets points for presenting economic issues in a way anybody can understand, as well as for pointing out the stupid ways politicians approach these ills. The one thing he left off the list was George Bush trying to pawn the whole mess off on Democrats in Congress--who have had a slim majority for just over a year, when he's been in office for more than seven.
Again and again we dredge up strange candidates and they make funny noises intended to convince us that these are good things. The really sad part is not what McCain says (and others echo) but that so many voters will support these ideas that are clearly unworkable or bad for the purpose suggested.
This article is statistical gibberish. For example job growth depends heavily on the number of young people entering the labor force and others leaving, not mainly on the state of the economy. Housing vacancy rates may be influenced by the boom in construction - i.e. overproduction of housing, rather than by a bad economy. Apparently the author wants to cherry pick statistics to show that things are bad or politicians are all bad.
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