Entries Tagged as 'david brooks'

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

USA Entitlement Program… Sunday Morning Magical Thinking

Please indulge me for a few moments:
 
The US is entitled to all of the resources it can score.  The US is entitled to live wastefully, by dint of its hard work.  The US can shut out its neighbors, walling their millenniums-old migration away by virtue of exclusive nationalism.  The purity of goodness in our nation [...]

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Big Bubble Bath

by Motormanmark.com
 
I haven’t read New York Times’ Iraq-War-cheerleading columnist, David Brooks’ recent piece, but, hurrying out the door, I did see the opening sentences, which included his oft-crooned notion that we Americans got where we are because we are such hard workers.  I ran across this saccharine sentiment on the job here with a jackass [...]

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

The Big-Bang Stimulus for Beginners

By Mark Crane  Motormanmark.com

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In 1980, voters elected a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, who began “deregulating” everything, which means he just stopped government from watching out for bad things private citizens and companies do—or just defunding government agencies so much that they don’t have [...]