Comments on: You’re having a Laffer

By: Timbeaux

Timbeaux — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:19:00 +0000

Sure, that’s why they poll consumer confidence every other week, it’s meaningless busywork for financial interns. Please, save your dignity and don’t let strangers in on your ignorance.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:12:00 +0000

Erm, no, that’s not the economy, that’s the stock exchange. You know, the stock exchange – the non-productive bit of the economy, that fucks up all the productive bits.

By: Timbeaux

Timbeaux — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:22:00 +0000

Mr. Drum fails to account for the fact that the economy is about 95% confidence, and 5% other factors. FDR had a similar problem. Tax cuts do wonders for consumer- and investor-confidence.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:47:00 +0000

"the welfare state, has spread like cancer into every nook and cranny of our lives with disasterous results."

Oh yes, and if we're not careful, we might even end up living in a hell-hole like Sweden. [shudders]

By: N.I.B.

N.I.B. — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:48:00 +0000

Well obviously Andrew – there was no such thing as cancer before the welfare state was set up.

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:40:00 +0000

Well, if the welfare state is the greatest evil visited on Britain in a thousand years, then an analogy with cancer is pretty resonable, even understated.

By: N.I.B.

N.I.B. — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:31:00 +0000

Actually, you might consider that the word "cancer" does have a very real meaning to *millions* of bereaved families in this and other countries. The same courtesy and sympathy that would stop one from bandying Auschwitz around in loose metaphors should apply here.

By: N.I.B.

N.I.B. — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:07:00 +0000

Gregg, I suspect, may be a young man, and that excuses his potty notion that life over the last sixty years has improved, except in the area of material possessions.

Cuh, cheer up. What a miseryguts. You'll be telling us the oil is running out next.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:43:00 +0000

David D tells us " Gregg, I suspect, may be a young man, and that excuses his potty notion that life over the last sixty years has improved, except in the area of material possessions. Everything the government has run; education, health, policing and so on, has steadily got worse"

and he does have a point, I suppose. But there's not much of a market for iron lungs these days, is there? I guess that's a bad thing if you run an iron lung factory, but for most other people it isn't.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:58:00 +0000

David, I do apologise – I thought you were being serious in your original post. Snark withdrawn.