Kathlee Parker: Counterintuitive ideas on fixing 'Current Mess' (now she wants to raise taxes)

Houston Chronicle ^ | January 12, 2009 | Kathleen Parker

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Here's a paradoxical thought to get you started: We have to increase taxes and federal programs to save the capitalist system.

I know, I know. But don't dismiss [author Matt Miller] without hearing him out. He has some compelling ideas that, though they seem at first counterintuitive, are ultimately reasonable. It is first necessary to suppress the instinct to remain comfortable in the familiar and to calm the knee that aches to jerk.

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The world has changed in significant ways and our old formulas simply no longer work. We once thought, for instance, that financial markets can regulate themselves. Whup. The disasters of 2008 proved that assumption false. If only we had noticed it sooner. Did dead ideas block our vision?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Okay...can the last few people who still think Parker's a "conservative" figure it out NOW?

[LibLieSlayer]

She is a flaming liberal, pro baby murdering lesbo. She can never again call herself a Conservative writer... she is to the left of stalin!

LLS

[Archon of the East]

We don't have a free market capitalist system and haven't for quite some time. Highly regulated corporatism is NOT capitalism. What we need is Capitalism not this imposture.

[sausageseller]

She is married to an attorney, has three sons, and a "lesbo"?

Man she gets around!

[dforest]

She needs to remain dead to us.

[brytlea]

She has a thing for Obama....

[AmericanVictory]

She says that this author does not have solutions but offers what? It sounds like he has inklings of fuzzy ideas and she says we should listen to inklings of fuzzy ideas which consists mostly of such things as that blind free-traderism advocated by economists as a mandating class is not necessarily beneficial. That is true but we all know that. NAFTA, for example, has in many ways made Mexico and the whole Mexican situation worse in many ways and better in others. Be happy to listen but she gives little reason to buy the book or spend time reading it.

[Le Chien Rouge]

We once thought, for instance, that financial markets can regulate themselves. Whup. The disasters of 2008 proved that assumption false. If only we had noticed it sooner. Did dead ideas block our vision?

No Kathleen, dead ideas did not block our vision. A government that has been increasingly sticking it’s nose into the free market in the name of ‘fairness’ has done most of the damage. The free market will reguate itself if left alone.

[downwdims]

Did National Review Fire her yet?

[avacado]

"We once thought, for instance, that financial markets can regulate themselves. Whup. The disasters of 2008 proved that assumption false."

Excuse me but! The system was find until the Democrats forced the financial markets to do things out of the norm such as given unqualified people home loans!

[ForeignDude]

Man, Kathleen is bidding hard to get on all the right invitation lists to swanky DC cocktail parties.

Principles? Who needs principles, when you can boogie with the beautiful people?

[Don Corleone]

The world has changed in significant ways and our old formulas simply no longer work

If you accept this liberal premise then there is no sense in even discussing the options. The premise is faulty therefore so is their argument!

[Condor51]

On education: Miller supports serious parental involvement and local ownership of the direction of schools, but insists that school funding based on local taxation dooms poor communities to substandard education. Without a greater federal role in financing and standards, how are 10 million poor children supposed to compete?

'Poor communities', like in Chicago, DC, Philly, Baltimore, etc, etc, etc, spend MORE per pupil than BETTER RATED suburban schools a few miles away from the clutches of those cities under DEMOCRAT Rule.

Go to Great Schools.net, pick a major city, aka, "poor community", open up Google or Yahoo maps, then pick a suburban school district. The proof to debunking this leftist lie about funding is right there in black and white.

Right now that ^%$*ing Daley is pushing this leftist bullcrap and wants MY property tax money to fund his hell holes called 'schools'. My schools are rated 8 and 9 - Chicago's a stinking 3 (Ten the highest) and Chi spends MORE per pupil as it is. Daley can take a flying flock.

[x1stcav]

She has ‘grown’ in her career and become an individual of limited intellectual resources.

Doesn’t this woman remember that all of this has been tried before with usually disastrous results.

Sheesh! I can do better than this drunk.

[Mamzelle]

Please don’t hit on her article. It’s time to deprive all these Vichy Republicans of hits. And if you drop by Townhall, tell them to fire her.

[LibLieSlayer]

Maybe she is of the Anne Hache school of lesbo... that is what I heard from someone that travels in her social circles... if she is not... she is till a supporter of the murder of the unborn and a flaming liberal. Care to dispute those two facts?

LLS

[Oldpuppymax]

Please dear. Just join the left altogether before you seriously strain something in your logic pretzel dance.

[WOSG]

“The world has changed in significant ways and our old formulas simply no longer work.”

Uh huh, we always hear the ‘this time it’s different’ right about the time that a huge collosal mistake is being made. “This time its different” when critics of the internet bubble questioned how thees businesses would exist on eyeballs and hype.

” We once thought, for instance, that financial markets can regulate themselves.”

When? In 1895? Since 1933, we’ve had regulated markets via the SEC. And in 2002, sarbanes oxley added to regulations of financials of companies.

[Question_Assumptions]

Did National Review Fire her yet?

That's what I want to know because if they keep paying for this idiot, I'm going to stop paying for the magazine.

[sausageseller]

"Heard' and know are two different things.

Care to dispute those two facts?

If I wanted to do that, don't you think I would have brought it up in my first post to you?

Also I can be just as big a smart a## you if you want to continue to go down the disingenuous road your on.