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It’s a Time to Listen, and to Obey the Laws of Arithmetic
New York Times ^ | November 8, 2008 | N. Gregory Mankiw

Posted on 11/09/2008 6:23:24 AM PST by LowCountryJoe

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1 posted on 11/09/2008 6:23:24 AM PST by LowCountryJoe
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To: LowCountryJoe
As a new senator, Mr. Obama voted along predictable left-wing lines. As president, he will need a more eclectic, nuanced approach.

Uh huh. Nuance is back in vogue. Here we go...

2 posted on 11/09/2008 6:27:36 AM PST by bcsco (Liberals don't understand, it's impossible to pick up a turd-like Obama-by the clean end...)
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To: LowCountryJoe

Guess which ones are reneged on?


3 posted on 11/09/2008 6:27:58 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: LowCountryJoe

Here it comes.....The propaganda machine is already setting the stage for a huge tax increase on everyone that makes over $40K. If it moves, chain it down!


4 posted on 11/09/2008 6:29:39 AM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: ecomcon
Guess which ones are reneged on?

All of them....

5 posted on 11/09/2008 6:30:40 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. - B. Franklin)
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To: LowCountryJoe

We make him KEEP ALL of his campaign promises. If he doesn’t, he gets his face in the fan. I’m certainly in the 95% category, so I’d better get a tax cut.


6 posted on 11/09/2008 6:30:49 AM PST by chippewaman
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To: ecomcon

What really worries me is that not enough of them will be.


7 posted on 11/09/2008 6:31:12 AM PST by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
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All assets are ther property of The State; those who cooperate with State policy will be allowed to keep a small portion of those assets. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The irony is that generations of Americans spent their lives, their treasure, and their blood fighting communism, and yet, after the Berlin Wall and the Bamboo Curtain fell, Americans decided they wanted to adopt communism as their own.


8 posted on 11/09/2008 6:32:46 AM PST by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: LowCountryJoe

Of course the Times editorial board knew this back when they endorsed B. Hussein Obama. They could have let an editorial to this effect appear back in October, but no, only after their darling boy gets elected do they decide to point out that he can’t actually keep all his campaign promises.


9 posted on 11/09/2008 6:33:42 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: LowCountryJoe

Yeah 2+2=5 I got an “A” for effort, like the good faith effort associated with mortgage paybacks. The “A” was also colored blue not to offend me. It’s so easy in Obama world, come lets hold hands and sing! Can you say brainless?


10 posted on 11/09/2008 6:34:37 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( When CHANGE comes let me know, I'll put my tin foil hat on and sit in front of myTV)
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To: Jack Hammer
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

At first blush it sounds really fair; later (when it's too late) you discover that some @$$hat bureaucrat gets to decide what your ability and needs are.

11 posted on 11/09/2008 6:36:51 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: LowCountryJoe
New York Times?

Now there is a well respected and worthy publication ... for lemmings.

12 posted on 11/09/2008 6:36:58 AM PST by G.Mason
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To: LowCountryJoe

So then, Obama ran with a far left agenda, and now, the NY Times is advocating that he adopt many of the policy positions of Republicans? If he does that, then republicans will have to point out, in each and every instance, where Obama has usurped their positions.


13 posted on 11/09/2008 6:37:17 AM PST by adorno
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Yet during the campaign, Mr. Obama promised to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans, to vastly expand health insurance coverage and never to cut Social Security benefits or raise the retirement age. The new administration will almost surely have to renege on some of these promises. As the economic team will often say, even if the laws of arithmetic are ignored during campaigns, they become a real constraint when making actual policy.

Renege? Are we making Obama into a liar already? What kind of "Hope and Change" will that be???

Last Tuesday, many people voted for Mr. Obama hoping that he would achieve the kind of economic success that Mr. Clinton enjoyed in the 1990s.

With the exception of the hard core communists, most of the "Hope and Change" crowd were clueless as to what they hoped for and what to actually change. I think N.Gregory Mankiw already knows that.

14 posted on 11/09/2008 6:38:19 AM PST by stevem
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To: The_Reader_David

Do you mean to tell me that a paper and group of journalists that shilled for a Democrat may not have have given us the full story — in other words, left out pieces of the story — when it was needed most? I am shocked; shocked, I tell you!


15 posted on 11/09/2008 6:38:24 AM PST by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
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To: LowCountryJoe

Its undoubtably prudent for Mr. Obama to renege on most of his proposals.

However, politically its essential that he not be allowed to save face when he does.

Letting the people know how much money Obama is cheating them out of when he doesn’t reduce taxes on the bottom 95% is important. Making the Democrat senators and reps unite together to renege on the promises, by continuing to vote “no” on Obama’s proposals will discourage the Obama base who is counting on him to pay their mortgages and fill their gas tanks.


16 posted on 11/09/2008 6:39:25 AM PST by I_Like_Spam
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To: Thermalseeker
All of them....

Naw. All the TAX THE RICH promises will be kept. The rich will simply be redefined.

17 posted on 11/09/2008 6:42:11 AM PST by Malsua
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To: LowCountryJoe
The advance propaganda vehicle has spoken.

Time to take bets on what the Obamanation of JFK's "Ask not" line will sound like.

"No, we can't?"

18 posted on 11/09/2008 6:43:03 AM PST by browardchad
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...noting, the NYT has this revelation after their clown is in the most powerful position. It's sorta like screw you, were doing this, you ain't gonna stop it,we know it's probably going to lead to disastrous consequences, but hey isn't it better you know now?

Thanks for the info

19 posted on 11/09/2008 6:43:09 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Jack Hammer

The irony is that generations of Americans spent their lives, their treasure, and their blood fighting communism, and yet, after the Berlin Wall and the Bamboo Curtain fell, Americans decided they wanted to adopt communism as their own.


Yes, I have often thought that. The most brilliant move the Communists made was to allow their system to collapse and disappear. Why? Because then people would focus on Communist theory (which sounds great on paper) and remove the visible evidence of its failure. Also, when the Capitalism economic downturn came (as they inevitably do), they could trumped the the failure of Capitalism as the cause of all the world’s woes.


20 posted on 11/09/2008 6:44:04 AM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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