Monday, August 3, 2009
Newly helpful websites for developing public policy
(This is the Congressional Budget Office's web site)
http://www.heritage.org/
(The Heritage Foundation)
http://www.gao.gov/
(The Government Accountability Office)
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Greenspan and Secretary Geithner
I don't want to be considered a hack for any party. I want to be objective and consider the facts. I didn't really support the stimulus bill. I didn't read the bill but I didn't think that pumping nearly a trillion dollars of money that we don't have into the economy was a good deal. From what I've gathered from history books and other sources, building bridges to nowhere and employing people for 9 months in "shovel ready" jobs is not a good proposition. I was younger and not as attentive as I am now to world affairs but I thought that the press was harder on the 2004 economy than it has been on Obama's 2009 economy. I want the economy to comeback and I do think that what the White House and Congress has done will be a test on how well Keynesian economics works or doesn't work. I'm also trying to understand the argument for how dumping another trillion dollars into nationalizing health care will help remedy our deficit problems. Many in favor of the health care reform bill shy away from the "nationalizing health care" vocabulary. When you put in place a public option that is paid for by the tax payers, doesn't have to make a profit, and is run by a government that can pass laws to regulate its private sector competitors, the "competitors" will squeezed out of the picture. Many advocates of H.R. 3200 also use the argument that we are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide health care to all of its citizens. I find this argument petulant and reverts to the kind of logic that gives us the "well everybody else is using drugs." I found a couple of videos on "This Week" with George Stephanopolous and found them informative.
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