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Open Thread: Kai Su, Teknon?

by: Dean Barker

Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 05:45:07 AM EDT
Beware the Ides of March:

This is an Open Thread.
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Open Thread: Kai Su, Teknon? | 6 comments
LOL. (0.00 / 0)
Krugman destroys Paul Ryan's stealth privatization scheme:

Back when the Cato Institute first began pushing for individual Social Security accounts, it called its push, well, The Project on Social Security Privatization. As the Bush administration got ready to make its privatization push, however, it became clear that "privatization" polled badly. So the project was renamed The Project on Social Security Choice. And Republicans began bristling at any suggestions that they were proposing privatization, calling that a slander. Really.

Wait, it gets better. Cato engaged in Orwellian tactics - deleting the term "privatization" from older web posts and even from records of old conferences. But they were sloppy; there were traces of the true history throughout. I don't know if they're still continuing the practice.

In any case, Ryan's attempt to deny that what his own movement used to call privatization is, in fact, privatization should settle the question of his sincerity.

There's a reason Bush's popularity began to sink fast after his SS privatization push in '05.

There's a reason John E. Sununu was a one-term US Senator.

If the right's policies (4.00 / 2)
are so good, why do they have to lie about them? From social security privatization, to "parents' rights" (doing away with child protection laws), to "death panels" for end of life care, they lie and distort at every turn.

Good ideas don't need to be hidden under a veil of lies.

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It's just a bad habit. They can't help it. (0.00 / 0)
Besides, all their consultants know that deprivation is not going to be popular.  So, they come up with more neutral terms.
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After healthcare (4.00 / 1)
Unlike Caesar, I'm hopeful our leader is finally aware of which Senators he can and can't trust.

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"Act as if ye have faith and faith shall be given to you." -Aaron Sorkin
Rome! (0.00 / 0)
The people behind the sometimes historically inaccurate but always entertaining Rome on HBO are putting together a sequel for the big screen.

http://heritage-key.com/blogs/...

While Caesar unfortunately was brutally murdered in season one, it looks like Vorenus and Pullo will be back.

All of which makes me wish someone would re-make I, Claudius.  

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

I still think the main objective behind privatization, (0.00 / 0)
in addition to providing Wall Street with another pot of money to play with, was to get back to doing things in secret.  Documentary evidence is quite devastating in court when malfeasance has been charged.
That has proved true again recently when judges threw out petitions to foreclose on mortgages because the plaintiffs couldn't provide documents to prove they were owed money.
Open Thread: Kai Su, Teknon? | 6 comments

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