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2011-08-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 A popular variant of the latter argument is that increasing public spending in an economic crisis is the best bet to balance the books later, as it will generate economic activity and therefore more tax revenue down the road ... the myth of this 'no cost', silver bullet 'solution' that essentially seeks to replicate what policymakers in the US have achieved: kicking the can down the road.

What was once can you could kick has now become a huge rock you can hardly budge. Or perhaps a rock that has started to roll backwards despite all efforts to push it forward.

What has the world come to when you have to look to Dawn for cogent economic analysis.

Posted by phil_b 2011-08-13 04:00|| 2011-08-13 04:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Much of what is said in this article is true. It's like a shotgun blast. What needs to be emphasized is this is worldwide. "In addition to these events of great magnitude and severity, the confluence of the food and commodity prices super-spike since 2007 has produced a tsunami of social dislocation and discontent around the world. We all here know that socialism fails and that is the true beast we must manage. To say that is a "crisis of the capitalist system" is bolix. Let people grow and develop. Freedom from government interference will release so much potential. Government must exist but not to the extent it is know. Government socialism as it is now can only impinge or warehouse people as they are demonstrating.
The freedom of capitalism is the fastest way out of this mess otherwise this will be a very very long winter. Government will learn the hard way if at all. They want the control.

Posted by Dale 2011-08-13 08:38|| 2011-08-13 08:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-13 09:58|| 2011-08-13 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Note the clear tone of this article, unlike so many others in Dawn which discuss issues much closer to home. This author doesn't have to fear reprisals from institutions & systems he is criticizing.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-13 12:02|| 2011-08-13 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I am beginning to believe that Dawn is a far more reputable news source than anything we have here in this country. Also that Iranian news site.

Anything beats msnbc, that horrid kanker sore on the cable-vision.

Posted by newc 2011-08-13 13:28|| http://concisemagazine.wordpress.com/ 2011-08-13 13:28|| Front Page Top

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