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This guy gets it
ecthompsonmd October 28, 2011

This was a very thoughtful comment to a very nice Vanity Fair article WW2 spending and debt brought us out of the Great Depression and won WW2. Spending increased to ~35% of the economy and the federal debt was ~122% of the economy at the end of the war. The debt had been reduced to 33% when Reagan was inaugurated; the debt doubled as a percentage of the economy under Reagan and Bush I as federal spending was between 22 and 25% of the economy, after being under 20% from 1946 to 1980. Reagan also started the deregulation of the banking industry

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Gridlock in Congress Should Be No Surprise
ecthompsonmd October 10, 2011

There seems to be a lot of consternation over the fact that Congress can’t get anything done. Many people are wringing their hands. The talking heads seem to be confused. The whole debacle is as plain as the nose on your face. Republicans, for the most part, were voted into office to do one thing – stop President Obama. It didn’t matter what it was he was proposing. Their job seems to be to oppose it. This is why we haven’t gotten anything done. It is impossible to get anything done when one party says no to everything.

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Challenging Obama
ecthompsonmd September 19, 2011

For reasons that I quite can’t put my finger on, the progressive bloggers here seem to bounce ideas around like ping-pong balls from time to time. Some of these ping-pong balls stay around a long time and others fade very quickly. Today’s ping-pong ball is the notion that somebody, anybody, needs to challenge President Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries. The theory goes that the president continues to triangulate and track to the middle. With a liberal primary challenger, this would cause the president to move his strategy and tactics back to the left. I think a democracy works best when

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