Comments for David Brooks Is Much Younger Than He Looks at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.cepr.net Tue, 21 May 2013 19:42:08 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18643 There is nothing good to say about the stupidity that comes from David Brooks' key board. He is only regurgitating Republican talking points as he is paid to do. When in the past century did government put up hurdles for business people to jump over? Was that when people like Gates, Jobs, or any of the silicon entrepreneurs were building real products to the great benefit of their early investors? Or was it when people like Sanford Weil was cobbling together financial Armageddon and amassing his own personal fortune to the destruction of many others. Government has never been the obstacle to economic growth, but government has occasionally been the enabler for economic destroyers. - Jack Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:07:23 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18542 And in every election since 1992 Brooks has called the the Republicans/Movement Conservatives the "Party of Reform" and the Democrats the party of "exhausted, without "New" ideas." I feel so sorry for "Moral Hazard." - sherparick Sun, 02 Sep 2012 07:14:11 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18530 Business magazines and business books help encourage people to "strive and take risk", but seldom do they report on the many people that worked hard, took risks, and failed, as most of the failed people they mention are executives leaving with a golden parachute. And has been noted by Nicholas Kristof, Sher Valenzuela, one of the Republican strivers featured at the convention, made use of SBA loans and non-compete government contracts to make her business successful. Maybe crony capitalism is still capitalism to Republicans. - John Wright Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:26:19 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18513 David Brooks doesn't make errors. He makes jokes. http://www.phillymag.com/articles/booboos-in-paradise/ - Aaron Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:31:10 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18511 David Brooks rewrites history all the time. Perhaps we could use his stuff to teach high school students--it could be "find the errors." - PeonInChief Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:20:41 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18509 It's important to recognize also that Republicans have never fulfilled their promises about reducing deficits or the size of government - all they have reduced is tax rates on rich people. If Republicans take power, concern about deficits will probably disappear from the media. All the "debate" about different "visions" assume that Republicans are serious about cutting entitlements, but this has never happened in previous Republican administrations and is unlikely in the future because that would lose votes. - skeptonomist Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:19:07 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18505 The 80s and 00s; Mourning in America, indeed. - Pauley Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:33:46 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18503 Brooks and the tawdry motivational speakers at the GOP convention talk about striving towards upward mobility in the context of today's winner-take-all lottery economy instead of a competitive market for skills and performance that disappeared long ago. Earn what you're worth by striving? Forget about it unless it's marginal differences within menial labor effort in the middle or lower class. Instead follow the striver cheerleaders and earn what you can get by crowding out the real strivers who possess equivalent or superior skills and performance, based on who your parents were, who you know, who you can buy off politically, who has the most market power, your appearance and projection for not rocking the boat, and luck. Crowding out the real strivers with economic policies specifically designed to enforce entry barriers and undermine competitive upward mobility explains much of todays ultra concentration of income, wealth and economic power at the top. It is insulting and degrading be lectured by those who rose to the top on the backs of real strivers crowded out by no fault of their own, told that millions of "losers" in this sick economic game could make it to the top too if government would just get of the way. As Baker has explained incessantly, we ended up this way in large part precisely because government was specifically put in the way to block real strivers in real free markets, so the counterfeit strivers could strut their way to the top then turn around and lecture the "losers" on how to be a winner too. - Last Mover Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:53:41 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18501 "If Brooks were as old as he looks..." That's just mean :) - zig_zac Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:20:14 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18500 You remind me of that old song... how does it go again... Oh yes. [i]My Op/Ed Pages[/i] Left wing thoughts ran through my ears, At university, I couldn’t stand the hypocrites, Like William F. Buckley, Voodoo, greed and welfare queens, Fritz would beat Reagan somehow, Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. My half-baked thoughts were first put forth, In college magazines, Republicans saw black and white, In color were my dreams, Then William Buckley hired me, To change his mind became my vow, Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. Faces that formed my forward path, Were of dead presidents, My former left-wing politics, Would never pay the rent, But what’s the harm in selling out, Truth will endure, somehow, Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. The politicians that I serve, Are flawed compared to me, But as compared to you, they are, Superior, immeasurably, I dared to dis’ the Tea Party, But got past that somehow, Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. Hunched at my desk, I wrote my words, My false dichotomies, Allegiance to Republicans, Just short of stenography, Once sincere objectivity, Mere cover for me now, Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. My youth was full of abstract thoughts, My ideas were brash, But now that I’ve reached middle age, I’m in it for the cash, Truth or lie, I define these terms, What was bad, now good somehow, Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. - Aaron Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:54:08 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18498 Democrats have plenty of ideas but the dirty little secret of DC which the media refuses to discuss is that Repubs have been sabotaging every idea that the Dems have put forward since January 20, 2009. Mitch McConnell told us they would do just that and he kept his word. - Paul Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:34:42 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-is-much-younger-than-he-looks#comment-18497 You have convinced me to cancel my subscription to WSJ, Bloomberg's Business Week, and other major newspapers despite my company pay for them. Why kill more trees? - James Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:49:32 +0100