Comments on: Amity Shlaes “The Forgotten Man” Is A Farce

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:36:28 +0000

Good description. She's even worse when she's talking; heard her on To The Point the other night and she went from a naked claim that slight changes in marginal tax rates will affect the behavior of rich people to a twenty second, incomplete, decade-by-decade overview of economic history since the 1920s, punctuated by the weird grunting noises that inarticulate people (or comedians) use instead of words. She seemed to be trying to use the grunts as nuance. And then when she was criticized by one of the other panelists, her basic response was that people should stop being mean to each other over tax policy. Embarrassing.

By: Chris Russell

Chris Russell — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:45:49 +0000

If you want a good idea of just how much of a hack Amity Shlaes is, just listen to Monday's episode of To the Point. She is so obviously out of her depth, but the lies just keep on coming. I got so angry, I actually had to turn it off.

By: Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle

Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:38:54 +0000

Why does Johnathan Chait have to be such a wanker on foreign policy?

By: Jaim

Jaim — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:05:03 +0000

“WWDeuce was a pretty big Public Works Project”

Exactly. And people tend to just look at the “hard” military spending for guns and bullets and planes and salaries, not so much things like the GI Bill, technological innovations, and social barriers overcome (women in the workplace, blacks and Asians serving honorably).

By: ed

ed — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:49:04 +0000

My favorite wing-nut talking point (soon to come from Jay) is that WWII and not the New Deal ended the Great Depression.

Well, WWDeuce was a pretty big Public Works Project.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:48:05 +0000

That “The Forgotten Man” is a farce may have something to do with Ms. Shlaes being a weak-minded, barely informed, dilettante hack fraud.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:47:39 +0000

My favorite wing-nut talking point (soon to come from Jay) is that WWII and not the New Deal ended the Great Depression.

Obviously, it was both things that worked to turn the economic tide but more to the point, what was WWII but one of the largest series of Federal expenditures of all time in America? Republicans have this strange habit of thinking wars don’t cost any money.

Further, the GI Bill, a Federal education subsidy was a great social “equalizer” for people like my grand-father and dad.

And it brought millions of women into the workplace for the first time.

In some ways WWII was basically an extension of the New Deal. Yet again, a Democratic president had to clean up a Republican (Coolidge, Harding, Hoover). He did so by making America the greatest country in the world.