I watched the paper review on the BBC News channel a little earlier, and it was generally agreed that the Sun's picture of Cameron looks like something out of the USSR.
The pic is supposed to be equating Cameron with Obama. As if! :rolleyes:
Well apparently Obama's approval ratings aren't very high now so maybe the Sun are anti-tory after all!
Yep, serves to remind you where the 'con' in Conservative comes from really.
The 'Crash of 2008' was the logical conclusion of the Reagan-Thatcher experiment; indeed, the "cult of neoliberalism" now seems as dated as revolutionary socialism
It's time 'New Liberalism' (aka modern or social), which gave us the Golden Age of Capitalism, returned
Well apparently Obama's opinion polls aren't very high now so maybe the Sun are anti-tory after all!
His approvals are tracking Reagan's. As of January 1983, Reagan was toast. The monetarism of the early 1980s caused that recession, but the economy recovered, in time, thanks to deficit spending and lower interest rates
Reagan supply-side tax cuts of 1981 were supposed to see the US economy grow by 5% in 1982, well it didn't
The Republican answer, in 2009, was $3 trillion in tax cuts (skewed in favour of those to which they are, ideologically, beholden), in addition to making the Bush tax cuts permanent [fat lot of use they were, given his record on jobs is the worst of any president this side of Herbert Hoover]. Obama signed into law a rather more modest $787bn stimulus package. He deferred too much to Congress on that. Should have had Keynesian economists write that bill
The irony is that the American upper class (the 'super rich') skews Democratic
The 'Crash of 2008' was the logical conclusion of the Reagan-Thatcher experiment; indeed, the "cult of neoliberalism" now seems as dated as revolutionary socialism
It's time 'New Liberalism' (aka modern or social), which gave us the Golden Age of Capitalism, returned
Actually, I think it's time to implement a global maximum wage in order to generate a zero inflationary environment, thus preventing speculation and financial gambling from ever screwing up the worldwide economy ever again.
What exactly do the Sun readers think that David Cameron is going to do for them?
Reduce their inheritance tax, allow them to hunt with dogs, get Cleggy involved and intoduce solar lighting into a few housing estates, cut the carbon emissions in Tower Hamlets, give amnesty to overseas workers in areas already overcrowded and full of resentment.
Is it all a massive game to the editors of these papers?
What exactly do the Sun readers think that David Cameron is going to do for them?
Reduce their inheritance tax, allow them to hunt with dogs, get Cleggy involved and intoduce solar lighting into a few housing estates, cut the carbon emissions in Tower Hamlets, give amnesty to overseas workers in areas already overcrowded and full of resentment.
Is it all a massive game to the editors of these papers?
Yep, one big game. The people who control this are so ridiculously wealthy, that they couldn't be further removed from what we consider to be 'normal society' if they tried.
Actually, I think it's time to implement a global maximum wage in order to generate a zero inflationary environment, thus preventing speculation and financial gambling from ever screwing up the worldwide economy ever again.
Adam Smith was a charlatan in my eyes.
Re-enacting the Glass-Steagall Act would be a good start. Very few banks failed while that was on the books
It's repeal was pushed by the GOP-Congress, and supported by many Democrats, and signed into law by Clinton (he had to work with wingnuts). A leading dissenting voice was Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) - a farming state progressive populist-type - who foresaw a crisis of the 2008 magnitude as consequence of its repeal
And the way things are heading, Obama could await the same fate - a Republican Congress [shudders]
Nevertheless, I'd take Clinton's 'Third Way' - the ethos of a bottom-up driven economy was there - over George W's 'compassionate conservatism'
Yep, one big game. The people who control this are so ridiculously wealthy, that they couldn't be further removed from what we consider to be 'normal society' if they tried.
Obama's approach is to, modestly, raise taxes on the primary beneficiaries of the Bush supply-tax cuts back to the levels they were under Clinton
Re-enacting the Glass-Steagall Act would be a good start. Very few banks failed while that was on the books
It's repeal was pushed by the GOP-Congress, and supported by many Democrats, and signed into law by Clinton (he had to work with wingnuts). A leading dissenting voice was Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) - a farming state progressive populist-type - who foresaw a crisis of the 2008 magnitude as consequence of its repeal
And the way things are heading, Obama could await the same fate - a Republican Congress [shudders]
Nevertheless, I'd take Clinton's 'Third Way' - the ethos of a bottom-up driven economy was there - over George W's 'compassionate conservatism'
Ohh just imagine the howls of righteous indignation if they brought back something similar..
"But you're going to restrict what we'll be able to do!"
Obama's approach is to, modestly, raise taxes on the primary beneficiaries of the Bush supply-tax cuts back to the levels they were under Clinton
He's got a fight on his hands
Of course he has - these people are very holier than thou and self-admittedly pure, until someone steps in to rein them back slightly.
I don't think he's got a fight on his hands, as I wouldn't expect the legislation to get past a first sitting. There are way too many lobbying influences and corporate interests in the Senate. People think our lot can be bad sometimes - they don't have a patch on our American cousins!
Of course he has - these people are very holier than thou and self-admittedly pure, until someone steps in to rein them back slightly.
I don't think he's got a fight on his hands, as I wouldn't expect the legislation to get past a first sitting. There are way too many lobbying influences and corporate interests in the Senate. People think our lot can be bad sometimes - they don't have a patch on our American cousins!
Especially given the conservative wing in his party. If there is a centre-right in the US, it's among Democrats. Liberal Republicans? Virtually extinct. Look at how Vermont has become so uber Democratic, at the presidential level. It had voted Democratic once - the LBJ landslide of 1964 - pre-1988. As for the Deep South, they'd voted for Democrats more liberal, economically, than Obama in years gone by
Do you know? In 1987, or thereabouts, a bill passed a Democratic Congress that cut taxes on the rich but raised them on the poor and middle class
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Well apparently Obama's approval ratings aren't very high now so maybe the Sun are anti-tory after all!
The 'Crash of 2008' was the logical conclusion of the Reagan-Thatcher experiment; indeed, the "cult of neoliberalism" now seems as dated as revolutionary socialism
It's time 'New Liberalism' (aka modern or social), which gave us the Golden Age of Capitalism, returned
Wasn't it Derek Jamieson (sp?) who started the Page 3 malarchy?
His approvals are tracking Reagan's. As of January 1983, Reagan was toast. The monetarism of the early 1980s caused that recession, but the economy recovered, in time, thanks to deficit spending and lower interest rates
Reagan supply-side tax cuts of 1981 were supposed to see the US economy grow by 5% in 1982, well it didn't
The Republican answer, in 2009, was $3 trillion in tax cuts (skewed in favour of those to which they are, ideologically, beholden), in addition to making the Bush tax cuts permanent [fat lot of use they were, given his record on jobs is the worst of any president this side of Herbert Hoover]. Obama signed into law a rather more modest $787bn stimulus package. He deferred too much to Congress on that. Should have had Keynesian economists write that bill
The irony is that the American upper class (the 'super rich') skews Democratic
Actually, I think it's time to implement a global maximum wage in order to generate a zero inflationary environment, thus preventing speculation and financial gambling from ever screwing up the worldwide economy ever again.
Adam Smith was a charlatan in my eyes.
What exactly do the Sun readers think that David Cameron is going to do for them?
Reduce their inheritance tax, allow them to hunt with dogs, get Cleggy involved and intoduce solar lighting into a few housing estates, cut the carbon emissions in Tower Hamlets, give amnesty to overseas workers in areas already overcrowded and full of resentment.
Is it all a massive game to the editors of these papers?
Yep, one big game. The people who control this are so ridiculously wealthy, that they couldn't be further removed from what we consider to be 'normal society' if they tried.
Re-enacting the Glass-Steagall Act would be a good start. Very few banks failed while that was on the books
It's repeal was pushed by the GOP-Congress, and supported by many Democrats, and signed into law by Clinton (he had to work with wingnuts). A leading dissenting voice was Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) - a farming state progressive populist-type - who foresaw a crisis of the 2008 magnitude as consequence of its repeal
And the way things are heading, Obama could await the same fate - a Republican Congress [shudders]
Nevertheless, I'd take Clinton's 'Third Way' - the ethos of a bottom-up driven economy was there - over George W's 'compassionate conservatism'
Obama's approach is to, modestly, raise taxes on the primary beneficiaries of the Bush supply-tax cuts back to the levels they were under Clinton
He's got a fight on his hands
Ohh just imagine the howls of righteous indignation if they brought back something similar..
"But you're going to restrict what we'll be able to do!"
EXACTLY.
Of course he has - these people are very holier than thou and self-admittedly pure, until someone steps in to rein them back slightly.
I don't think he's got a fight on his hands, as I wouldn't expect the legislation to get past a first sitting. There are way too many lobbying influences and corporate interests in the Senate. People think our lot can be bad sometimes - they don't have a patch on our American cousins!
Especially given the conservative wing in his party. If there is a centre-right in the US, it's among Democrats. Liberal Republicans? Virtually extinct. Look at how Vermont has become so uber Democratic, at the presidential level. It had voted Democratic once - the LBJ landslide of 1964 - pre-1988. As for the Deep South, they'd voted for Democrats more liberal, economically, than Obama in years gone by
Do you know? In 1987, or thereabouts, a bill passed a Democratic Congress that cut taxes on the rich but raised them on the poor and middle class