CapitalistImperialistPig

Obama's recent numbers don't exactly confirm the stupid story referenced in the previous post. July 29, 2011 9,371,377 692,544 1,639 July 28, 2011 9,387,818 692,698 1,530 July 27, 2011 9,368,306 692,766 1,525 July 26, 2011 9,353,840 692,808 1,525 July 23, 2011 9,289,552 693,038 1,514 July 22, 2011 9,268,591 693,099 1,505 July 21, 2011 9,252,739 693,164 1,502 July 20, 2011 9,235,345 693,245 1,499 July 19, 2011 9,221,297 693,303 1,499 July 18, 2011 9,198,308 692,590 1,493 July 17, 2011 9,151,165 692,727 1,477

Paul Samuelson was a brilliant Nobel Prize winning economist who used to write a column for Newsweek. Robert J Samuelson is some idiot hack that Newsweek hired to write about economics after Paul Samuelson left. His lack of knowlege of economics hasn't really handicapped his career since his actual job is to be a reliable right-wing mouthpiece. His latest column in the WaPo is It’s the elderly, stupid. Naturally, he leads with some transparent falsehoods. ...we’ve heard almost nothing of the main problem that makes the budget so intractable. It’s the elderly, stupid. By now, it’s obvious that we need to rewrite the social contract that, over the past half-century, has transformed the federal government’s main task into transferring income from workers to retirees. In 1960, national defense was the government’s main job; it constituted 52 percent of federal outlays. In 2011 — even with two wars — it is 20 percent and falling. Meanwhile, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid ...