DeMinted - By Hayes Brown. Why Oh Why Can't We Have Better Right Wing Think Tanks?: Stuart Butler/Heritage Foundation/Individual Mandate Edition. Krugman Exposes GOP Ryan's Unicorn Budget, Catches Heritage Burying Number. Paul Krugman spent Wednesday combing through the details of Tea-GOP genius Paul Ryan’s budget and in a series of blog posts utterly destroyed the Ryan budget’s phony math, implausible assumptions and unicorn forecasts. Kudos to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for picking this up. Krugman once called Ryan a “flim flam” man, a virtual con artist, and yesterday, he proved it. Let us count the ways. 1. Beginning Tuesday with “Groundhog Day,” Krugman warned of a giant bait-and-switch in which the claimed goal of reducing the deficit would provide cover for what in fact would be a proposal not merely to privatize Medicare (or Social Security) but to do so in a way that actually increased costs, if not to government, then for beneficiaries.
He was right. 2. 4. 5. Worse, Krugman notes that Ryan’s budget savings from Medicare/Medicaid that result from shifting costs to seniors and the poor/disabled would be squandered in providing more tax cuts for the rich and corporations. 6. 7. 8. Yep. Heritage Foundation - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy Studies. Please note: IPS Right Web neither represents nor endorses any of the individuals or groups profiled on this site. The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.
Among the foundation's principal staff members and advisers as of August 2012 were: Feulner, Heritage's president; David Addington, Heritage's vice president and former chief aide to Vice President Dick Cheney; Reagan-era attorney general Edwin Meese III; Steve Forbes; key right-wing funder Richard Scaife; and Midge Decter, the spouse of neoconservative icon Norman Podhoretz. In addition, Heritage maintains a plank of some 60 in-house experts who are in turn supported by nearly 200 staff and management personnel.
It also supports some 30 additional websites and affiliated projects, including the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, the Heritage Congressional Fellowship, NationalSecurity.org, and ReagansHeritage.org. Heritage and Foreign Policy During the Obama Presidency Bush and Before Recipe for Success. 30 Million in Poverty Aren't as Poor as You Think, Says Heritage Foundation - Derek Thompson - Business. Many of the 30 million Americans living in poverty "are not poor in any ordinary sense of the term," the Heritage Foundation claims, because they have access to air conditioning, television, and a car. "They are well housed, have an adequate and reasonably steady supply of food, and have met their other basic needs, including medical care," authors Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield write.
The vast majority of them own refrigerators, televisions, stoves, microwaves, air conditioning and other consumer electronics not available to even the richest families a few generations ago. Tens of millions of Americans are uninsured and 50 million suffer from insecure access to food. But nearly all poor households own a refrigerator, television, and microwave. I think the answer goes back to why so many families -- not just the very poor, but the firmly middle class -- feel squeezed in these times. Earlier this month, I summed up the graph this way: "The stuff you're making is getting cheaper. Heritage Foundation: Widespread Xbox Ownership Debunks Myth of American Poverty. By tsmall Here’s Atrios, in a typically prescient post. …even in the Strapping Young Buck era I don’t think the possession of a color TV was seen as some sort of display of obscene wealth.Still I imagine the ZOMG FLAT SCREEN TV IS IN THE HIZZZHOUSE will long be held up as PROOF that the poor are NOT POOR.
Yep, pretty much. Census officials continue to grossly exaggerate the numbers of the poor, creating a false picture in the public mind of widespread material deprivation, writes Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Robert Rector in a new paper. And what are these conditions? “The poorest Americans today live a better life than all but the richest persons a hundred years ago.”[3] In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning.
An oven and a stove?! Anyway, these days you can get an original Xbox — with a few games thrown in — for about $40 bucks. Conservative Policy Research and Analysis. Think Tank Fires Fellow For Criticizing Bush. The Heritage Foundation Confuses Me. The Heritage Foundation critiques the CEA assessment of the stimulus. In WebMemo #2799, Dr. Campbell writes: The CEA’s method, in brief, compared a statistical forecast of the economy based on historical patterns (no stimulus) with the actual economic results in 2009. On this basis, it claims that there are 2 million more jobs in the economy than otherwise would have been the case. The CEA then concludes that this difference between this statistical forecast and the actual results were the effect of the stimulus. Yet the CEA’s benchmarks for unemployment and GDP numbers were completely arbitrary. Well, I am confused on a number of counts. First, the author selects forecasts from well before the ARRA was passed — October 2008 for the Global Insight forecast and January 2009 for the CBO (although that forecast was finalized on December 19).
Table 7: from CEA, “The Economic Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Second Quarterly Report,” (January 13, 2009). Dr. Dr. Heritage Foundation. Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a New Right think tank. Its stated mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of "free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. "[1] It is widely considered one of the world's most influential public policy research institutes. The Foundation wields considerable influence in Washington, and enjoyed particular prominence during the Reagan administration. Its initial funding was provided by Joseph Coors, of the Coors beer empire, and Richard Mellon Scaife, heir of the Mellon industrial and banking fortune.
The Foundation maintains strong ties with the London Institute of Economic Affairs and the Mont Pelerin Society. History But Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts did not just champion the Reagan Doctrine in Washington. "Liberation is at hand.... Policy stances Supporting nuclear power Against the European Union Thomas A. The Comfort Of Other People: Inequality Then And Now. This is the last day of Naked Capitalism fundraising week. Don’t miss the chance to participate.
So far, over 840 donors have already invested in our efforts to shed light on the dark and seamy corners of finance. Join us and participate via our Tip Jar, another credit card portal or by check (see here for details). Read about why we’re doing this fundraiser and our current target. Welcome to our new guest blogger Susan of Texas, who writes at The Hunting of the Snark. John and Fanny Dashwood, 1805 John and Fanny Dashwood, 2011 Mrs. It is a truth universally acknowledged that rising inequality and social unrest go hand in hand.
The Congressional Budget Office breaks down the facts on inequality. CBO finds that, between 1979 and 2007, income grew by: 275 percent for the top 1 percent of households, 65 percent for the next 19 percent, Just under 40 percent for the next 60 percent, and 18 percent for the bottom 20 percent. Two hundred years ago, in 1805, the US had less income inequality. Mr. The Pot, the Kettle, and the Heritage Foundation. On June 14, former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese welcomed author and conservative activist Phil Kent to the miniature auditorium just off the Heritage Foundation's lobby. Kent, a former aide to Strom Thurmond, was promoting his new book, Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super Rich Undermine America. In the book and during the event, he took vitriolic aim at the "liberal super rich elites" wielding ideas that he described as "a dagger pointed at the heart of traditional America.
" Kent singled out the Ford Foundation as "the number one villain," which is "extremely active in undermining America. " Also included on his traitors' list were philanthropic stalwarts like the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations as well as newcomers such as the Turner and Clinton Foundations. Kent nicknames billionaire financier George Soros "the Dr.
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