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Posted Wed, Apr 8, 10:58 p.m.
What we did during the Great Depression, we can't do now, even though I'm sure many people would like to try. We had a dug well with a pitcher pump. We had chickens that laid eggs and occasionally went broody and sat on a clutch of eggs until we had ...
MOREPosted Tue, Mar 31, 9:31 a.m.
Right on! Start the ball rolling on the fund-raising and I'll be among the first to contribute to a Journalism Park in Seattle. A free press is truly the only thing standing between us and tyranny - and I don't see the Internet filling the void left by the demise ...
MOREPosted Thu, Feb 26, 8:45 a.m.
In a global economy, how can we be so isolationist about language? To me it's the ultimate in arrogance to call our students educated when they speak and understand only English. Of course, I'm an old fogy. Back in the day, one needed two (not one) year of foreign language ...
MOREPosted Fri, Feb 6, 9:27 a.m.
Hold on, richardinSeattle. As I recall the big discussion at the end of the Clinton years was what to do with a close to a $600 billion surplus. Eight years later after the Constitution was trashed, seasoned bureaucrats replaced with doctrinaire Bush loyalists with pudding for brains, and our regulatory ...
MOREPosted Fri, Feb 6, 8:21 a.m.
I missed something. I could have sworn that in an earlier column Ted commented that the New Deal was indeed "working" and that contrary to conventional wisdom, the country was finding its way out of the Depression before WWII. Oh yes, that wasn't Ted. That was Paul Krugman. My opinion, ...
MOREPosted Wed, Feb 4, 2:19 p.m.
What hermetically sealed bubble do you live in, Spud? Those small towns have not "weathered" the booms and busts. With each bust they have withered and shriveled just a little bit more. I graduated from Benson Union High School (AZ) in 1948. In 2008, I traveled somewhat the same route ...
MOREPosted Thu, Jan 22, 10:08 a.m.
Quite right, Ted. Job creation through infrastructure projects will be too little, too late. If tax cuts are a way to get at least some people back to work (or save jobs), then so be it. Here in Arizona, the rumblings and wranglings over specific projects have already begun. Nimbys, ...
MOREPosted Fri, Jan 9, 9:59 a.m.
Perhaps I should clarify. I keep hearing that the supposed failure of the New Deal "proves" that government spending doesn't work in a plummeting economy. Does no one remember the Dust Bowl? Has anyone at least seen pictures of the lines of cars on Route 66 stretching as far as ...
MOREPosted Fri, Jan 9, 9:41 a.m.
Go down Moses, let my people WORK. I agree with Paul Krugman. The only failure of the New Deal was that it didn't go far enough, and that is the danger again today. Oddly, everyone seems to have forgotten the role of the Dust Bowl in prolonging the Depression.
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 21, 8:20 a.m.
I hope you are right that the threat is no greater than for any other President in turbulent times, but I fear there are organized groups (paramilitary or whatever) and rich people capable of subsidizing them who can't seem to accept that Barack Obama has been elected. Even after the ...
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