If You Can Create Even The Illusion

I Don't Think I've Had Any Great Success In Predicting Politics Or Social Change, Nor Have I Really Tried.

Default Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves.

Unsustainable Situations Usually Go On Longer Than Most Economists Think Possible. But They Always End, And When They Do, It's Often Painful.

If You Had To Explain America's Economic Success With One Word, That Word Would Be "education".... Until Now, The Results Of Educational Neglect Have Been Gradual - A Slow-motion Erosion Of America's Relative Position. But Things Are About To Get Much Worse, As The Economic Crisis ... Deals A Severe Blow To Education Across The Board.... We Need To Wake Up And Realize That One Of The Keys To Our Nation's Historic Success Is Now A Wasting Asset. Education Made America Great; Neglect Of Education Can Reverse The Process.

Some Years Down The Pike, We're Going To Get The Real Solution, Which Is Going To Be A Combination Of Death Panels And Sales Taxes. It's Going To Be That We're Actually Going To Take Medicare Under Control, And We're Going To Have To Get Some Additional Revenue, Probably From A Vat. But It's Not Going To Happen Now.