Comments on: Are We Going to Repeat History?

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:45:03 +0000

Reinstate Glass-Steagel and impose a fraction of a percent tax on investment transactions.

Families could write off a hundred or so transactions a year, to cover sales of stocks and bonds in their personal investments.

By: John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:53:10 +0000

What surprises me about Romney and self-professed economics wonk Paul Ryan is the decision to ignore not just history but virtually every economist of note … frightening

By: Kris Herzog

Kris Herzog — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:03:39 +0000

Sadly, I think history will repeat itself regardless of whom is elected. Neither major party candidate really has shown any regard to fixing the economy, just on how they can make themselves look better.

Romney is costing himself the election, Obama was elected on the promise of a violation of the checks and balances system, leading people to believe that the President can legislate…

I firmly believe in voting, and that I have no right to complain if I don’t, but this year, I will either not be using that right, or voting Green. Either way, I won’t be happy with the results, so it’s a lose-lose for me. And America as well.

By: Robert Nowall

Robert Nowall — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:48:23 +0000

Since most of the “New Deal” programs were started under Hoover and continued under Roosevelt—who ran in 1932 to Hoover’s right—it would be hard to say which one to expect the eventual winner to perform like…

By: Matthew B. Tepper

Matthew B. Tepper — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:27:08 +0000

“Did you know he’s listening to you?” Except that in that case (when you castigated former President Herbert Hoover on Long John Nebel’s radio show), Hoover had paid for his failed policies, and lived to hear himself excoriated for many years. In the case of Governor Romney, he NEEDS to hear you say this (although it might not make any difference whatsoever).

Years ago, at a con, I heard a couple of fans seated next to me discussing politics. Not an unusual thing in itself, of course. But then, one of them said, “You know, we ought to elect an ENGINEER to the presidency. He’d fix things up, all right!”

I couldn’t let that go unremarked, so I leaned over and said, “We’ve already had TWO engineers as president: Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter.” Then I hightailed out of there as fast as my feet would take me.