Comments for Time Magazine Decides to Throw Numbers to the Wind to Promote Representative Ryan at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.cepr.net Sat, 18 May 2013 03:32:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/time-magazine-decides-to-throw-numbers-to-the-wind-to-promote-representative-ryan#comment-13530 Time magazine is promoting the party of psychopaths. - Renate Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:26:34 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/time-magazine-decides-to-throw-numbers-to-the-wind-to-promote-representative-ryan#comment-13529 After decades of tax cuts, low and stagnating wages and salaries and high unemployment it should be clear to all, supply side, trickle down economics does not work. The standard of living will go down by how much, 20%-25%? Empirical evidence tells us, it won't go up. What motivates these people to do what they do? - Renate Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:19:00 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/time-magazine-decides-to-throw-numbers-to-the-wind-to-promote-representative-ryan#comment-13525 time magazine has always been the stupidest publication in the united states. look at some of their person's of the year, kissinger, bush, obama, all stupendously egotistical & also very stupid. inntvo pantaloons." - mel in oregon Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:34:04 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/time-magazine-decides-to-throw-numbers-to-the-wind-to-promote-representative-ryan#comment-13515 Show Time's cover to 100 people without the text and I bet 99 of them would say it is a picture of a terrorist. I doubt Time sees any difference. - Buddy Boy Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:43:59 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/time-magazine-decides-to-throw-numbers-to-the-wind-to-promote-representative-ryan#comment-13511 OWS and then, "for balance," Paul Ryan as runner-up. Hmmmm. First, these marketing gimmick/awards are just more of our worthless press's infotainment crap for those with short attention spans and mind-numbed brains that are unable to think critically due to massive amounts of infotainment crap... And of course there's the press's never ending noble quest for balance never mind the facts. This may not be a direct false equivalence but Paul Ryan sort of epitomizes the politician-role in all that OWS is protesting, doesn't he: the corporate hackery, the mendacity, hypocrisy, the covert shilling for the elite which has led to the gross inequality. - trish Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:32:27 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/time-magazine-decides-to-throw-numbers-to-the-wind-to-promote-representative-ryan#comment-13510 Greedy people like Ryan are eternal teenagers. - fuller schmidt Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:25:40 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/time-magazine-decides-to-throw-numbers-to-the-wind-to-promote-representative-ryan#comment-13506 The trickle down theory is correct if we replace the rich by the total economy. Thus when the total economy works well, its effect trickles down and up and sideways. Hence we need to make policies that help the economy, not the rich. What helps the economy is a healthy population. Healthy, physically, financially, and emotionally, the huge bottom 99.9% will spend a far larger percentage of their income on tangible demands that will sustain the economy. The only way is to keep those in the 99.9% healthy and financially capable to sustain the economy through their demands. Their demand will create jobs. The top 1% or 0.1% can't demand as much. Investing in derivatives and stocks don't create demand. Capitalism is can only be sustained by demand, which in turn creates jobs. So, it is better to say that the economy (society) depends on social support programs, not just the middle class and the poor. The latter argument makes such services sound like hand-outs. The fact that we need a healthy and financially robust demand, demands that we support that those who demand. - nassim sabba Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:53:09 +0100