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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:29 AM Original message |
What exactly is behind the aversion to the Keynesian solution to unemployment? |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
1. The whole point of New Deal work programs was based on the good feeling people get from...working - |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. Reagan's huge spending can be seen as Keynesian. Yep. nt |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Exactly.. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. ...done all on borrowed money. nt |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:35 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. Only if you pervert the word. n/t |
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Xolodno (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 09:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Heh...Reagan wouldn't be "electable" in todays... |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
3. Corporations, for the most part, don't give a S*** about the country and the people, only |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Not even that |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Yep, they managed to take it even one step further into decline as an |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. The first employment project should be |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. Money was not given to the rich to boost employment. |
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FormerDittoHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
6. Yes.The "thinking" is that Keynesian spending is only good if it's for whites, I mean, the military. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:01 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. What a red herring that is! The TRILLIONS to the banksters mostly went to "whites"... |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
7. Hard-core Rightwing economic ideology |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
8. Many of the beneficiaries would be African American |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. yep - that is a good part of it. |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
10. That was suppose to be the stimulus package - but the dems didn't do it |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
13. Keynesian economics are socialism, the New Deal was communism, |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:48 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. Good analysis IMO. n/t |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 09:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
27. And the ex-Birchers are now the Klan. The Tea Klux Klan, if you will. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 05:59 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Oh, I will. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
14. "...just dig holes and fill them up again..." |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:20 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. The jobs programs of the New Deal weren't makework, |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:55 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. To date, IMO, we've been feeding the same mechanism that brought us this |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. I wasn't arguing with New Deal programs |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 09:19 AM Response to Reply #14 |
26. The difference is that the boosters.... |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 05:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Well, then you must really be a fan |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 09:18 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Probably be better if the courses of study.... |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
17. This is why humans have such an impact on the environment |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
18. FDRs New Deal despised by Republicans and some in our own |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
19. What exactly is behind you thinking this would all happen over night? |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
25. higher employment = higher wages = a more confident workforce |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 09:51 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. The "Uniquely American Solution". |
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troubledamerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-09-10 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
34. Cheap Labor = Neocon goal. Destroy the Middle Class. |
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