It talks about a troubling new deal between Boeing and the Pentagon, the tax cuts, and the burying of the Treasury report that we have discussed pointing out the long-term emergency we are facing as a country. Very good stuff:
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Like many disgraced companies, the White House has proven adept at playing fast and loose with the numbers in order to mislead its \"shareholders\" -- the American people. Take the administration's shifty use of \"averages\" to make it seem like the new tax cut benefits everyone -- claiming that \"91 million taxpayers will receive, on average, a tax cut of $1,226,\" when, in fact, the majority of households will receive a tax cut of $100 or less. Or the way it used sure-to-be-repealed \"sunset clauses\" to make it seem as if the president was reasonably settling for a $350 billion tax cut, when the actual price tag on the new bill will be close to $1 trillion.
It's the kind of economic book cooking that would do ol' Kenny Boy Lay proud.
It's time to expand the Right's definition of immorality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, cheating, and callous indifference to those in need.
CEOs lying to investors to pad their own pockets is bad enough. Political leaders lying to the American people to pad the pockets of their big buck contributors is immoral -- and intolerable.
The Enronization of Public Policy
It's the kind of economic book cooking that would do ol' Kenny Boy Lay proud.
It's time to expand the Right's definition of immorality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, cheating, and callous indifference to those in need.
CEOs lying to investors to pad their own pockets is bad enough. Political leaders lying to the American people to pad the pockets of their big buck contributors is immoral -- and intolerable.