America's Truth Deficit

The New York Times ^ | July 18, 2005 | WILLIAM GREIDER

[Willie Green]

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[Always Right]

Truth? New York Times????? Willie you are losing it.

[ClearCase_guy]

The New York Times says there's a Truth Deficit -- but can I trust them?

[Jibaholic]

First Jacques Chirac (ultraliberalism) and now the New York Times: free markets are the new communism.

[thoughtomator]

From the leading purveyor of truth deficit... the NY Slimes.

[1rudeboy]

free markets are the new communism

Unintentionally hilarious.

[L98Fiero]

"free markets are the new communism"

Day is the new night.

[1rudeboy]

To go is to return.

[RexBeach]

Bill Greider is a socialist. Free trade and a free economy is what ultimately buried communism in much of the world.

Does this mean the the NYT no longer sells ad space? I wonder, then, how does Mr. Greider get his pay?

[vabeachrepub]

Why is the United States one of the few advanced economies that suffers from perennial trade deficits?

Because we have an economy that can support it!

[henderson field]

It is not possible for the Global Economy and the United States to both succeed. One or both have to fail. It is not possible to chase the low-wage labor and sustain a middle class in the U.S. When, not if, this fails, we will no longer have a market for goods and services because we will be earning the same as the "efficient" labor pools, namely $1 an hour. How many new Chryslers can you buy on $1 an hour? That is the fly in the ointment. Or the end of America, however you would like to say it.

[Willie Green]

Truth? New York Times????? Willie you are losing it.
The New York Times says there's a Truth Deficit -- but can I trust them?

Well it's not as if I have any reasonable expectation that either of you will attempt to refute the substantive points of this article. LOL! I already know how THAT part of this post is gonna play out.

[The Electrician]

Did anybody else notice the incongruity of a national affairs columnist for The Nation (which is a long-time supporter of the Soviet Union and fellow-traveler with every cockamamie Communist ideal under the sun) decrying the lying ways of the Soviet leadership that they worshiped up to the day of its collapse (and whose return they long for)?

[Mikey_1962]

William Greider, also wrote this:
The most important function of the federal government is mailing checks to citizens--Social
Security checks to the elderly, pension checks to retired soldiers and civil servants, reimbursement
checks for hospitals and doctors who provide medical care for the aged and the poor, welfare
checks for the dependent, veterans checks to pensioners.
-William Greider, The Education of David Stockman He believes that most important function of government is not to protect the freedom of its citizens but to make transfer payments

[1rudeboy]

It is not possible for the Global Economy and the United States to both succeed.

If you say so, I suppose.

[Minn]

It is not possible for the Global Economy and the United States to both succeed.

Whatever you say, Gomer.

[Paradox]

It is not possible for the Global Economy and the United States to both succeed. One or both have to fail.

Proof positive that Zero-Sumists exist not only on the left, but on the Right.

[Always Right]

Well it's not as if I have any reasonable expectation that either of you will attempt to refute the substantive points of this article. LOL! I already know how THAT part of this post is gonna play out.

The point of the article???? What is that, that the US is near collasps like the Soviet Union was???? OK, let's just ignore that our economy has been growing at about 4% for the last 3 years, we have had a very low 5.5% unemployment rate forever, we have low inflation and great interest rates, the stock market is doing better. Because some dork at the New York Times says we are gonna collasps does not make it a fact. We have had trade deficits my whole life and it really is not a huge negative the doomsayers have been saying for the past 30+ years.

[rdb3]

Proof positive that Zero-Sumists exist not only on the left, but on the Right.

As I've been saying for years here.