The Party Of Ideas Has Become The

The Habit Of Disguising Ideology As Expertise Has Created A Deficit Of Legitimacy.

What Our Economy Needs Is Direct Job Creation By The Government And Mortgage-debt Relief For Stressed Consumers. What It Very Much Does Not Need Is A Transfer Of Billions Of Dollars To Corporations That Have No Intention Of Hiring Anyone Except More Lobbyists.

I Have Friends, Political Scientists, Sociologists, Who All Share An Interest At Least In Certain Kinds Of Science Fiction.

It Has Been Obvious All Along, To Anyone Paying Attention, That The Politicians Shouting Loudest About Deficits Are Actually Using Deficit Hysteria As A Cover Story For Their Real Agenda, Which Is Top-down Class Warfare. To Put It In Romneyesque Terms, It's All About Finding An Excuse To Slash Programs That Help People Who Like To Watch Nascar Events, Even While Lavishing Tax Cuts On People Who Like To Own Nascar Teams.

Simple Doesn't Mean Stupid. Thinking That It Does, Does.