Re: McCain vs Obama

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Rumpelstiltskin wrote:

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:04:11 -1000, "Alvin E. Toda" <aet@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Rumpelstiltskin wrote:
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I find "the economy" not a very useful term lately, since it doesn't seem to say anything about the welfare of the common man. Andrew Jackson, I'm sure, would have had as little use for it in its current usage as I have. It doesn't even seem to say anything about the financial security of the dollar or of the country. Whatever it means seems anymore is apparently so specialized as to be of little import to almost anybody who's concerned with the more immediate matters of well-paying jobs and financial security.



It still has a lot to say about that. You might find reading some of Paul Krugman's columns very uplifting on the economy.


Sounds like too much work. I'm a dilettante, which is not to say I don't think some of my views are clearer than they might be if I got bogged down in irrelevant or circular details, or just plain flim-flammery. (That's not including Krugman of course, whom I admire.)

Perhaps it's better to be uplifted and happy with the details, than to worry unnecessarily. Krugman is not that much into details. I like this writing. A Republican friend of mind says Krugman is not really an economist. He's too political. But my opinion is that no one can separate the politics from the economy according to our American system of campaign finance. We complain about the corruption in third world countries like the Phillipines, but this country is only slightly better.
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