MainLine Peace Action/DelMont PDA

December 11, 2010

Obama The Negotiator

Filed under: economics — Tags: , , , , , — Walter Ebmeyer @ 8:36 am

President Obama’s recent negotiations with Republican leaders puts us in mind of Neville Chamberlain who, in 1938, returned from Munich assuring us he had established “peace in our time.”   We have to hope we have more time before the collapse than Chamberlain and the British did.  The article by Bob Burnett has more about negotiating with vipers.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Barack-Obama-Negotiating-by-Bob-Burnett-101210-79.html

December 5, 2010

Give ’em Hell, Bernie!

Filed under: economics — Tags: , , , — Walter Ebmeyer @ 8:20 am

November 26, 2010

The Bush Tax-Cuts Were Not Good For Growth

Filed under: economics — Tags: , , , — Walter Ebmeyer @ 11:31 am

David Englehardt shows rather convincingly that the years of the Bush tax cuts were the worst for economic growth since World War II.  One must question why anyone would argue that maintaining the cuts would be good for future growth.  We should have learned that lesson.

October 26, 2010

It’s About Tax Cuts

Filed under: economics — Tags: , , — Walter Ebmeyer @ 2:37 pm