Comments for Why Does a Q&A on the "National Debt Crisis" Appear in the Washington Post? at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.cepr.net Sat, 18 May 2013 04:37:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-does-a-qaa-on-the-qnational-debt-crisisq-appear-in-the-washington-post#comment-20563 Well, it could actually be when you owe more than you can pay. For a government that would be when payments on the debt become burdensome. The US doesn't fit that definition either, but... Sometimes your definitions seem a little arbitrary, - Bill H Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:03:26 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-does-a-qaa-on-the-qnational-debt-crisisq-appear-in-the-washington-post#comment-20559 Best bet for improving reporting accuracy about the "fiscal cliff": keep pounding the Post with the perfectly correct taunt, "If you're worried about the fiscal cliff, you are a Keynesian." - urban legend Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:25:17 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-does-a-qaa-on-the-qnational-debt-crisisq-appear-in-the-washington-post#comment-20558 Few seem to realize that some large portion of every dollar of spending cuts is some portion of some ones pay check. The real value of paychecks has been declining for thirty or forty years and the last ten have been terrible for workers. Talking of spending cuts with forty two million Americans eligible for food stamps seems insane. There is a lot of talk about the debt but very little about our real problem of slow growth and continued unemployment. Probably our problems will accelerate as dollars are taken from the economy and we will emulate southern Europe with despair and increased unemployment and public unrest. Fear will cause at last the program that every one knows is needed but no one talks about because of the politics involved. We will never recover as a vibrant economy until working Americans are refinanced with a huge increase in the minimum wage to drive wages up, a large increase in public espenditures for personnel and for infrastructure and a huge increase in taxes to pay for the things we need. It is time for a New Deal. The option is serfs, cops and truncheons. - carlyle Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:52:10 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-does-a-qaa-on-the-qnational-debt-crisisq-appear-in-the-washington-post#comment-20555 Isn't it ironic that the CEO of the Washington Post has a son that is the executive producer of the Onion? Based on some the editorials and articles in the Post, you would think they were in competition with each other. - Jay Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:42:48 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-does-a-qaa-on-the-qnational-debt-crisisq-appear-in-the-washington-post#comment-20551 So actually the fiscal cliff is an anti-"debt crisis"...it is austerity up the yin yang. - pete Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:54:21 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/why-does-a-qaa-on-the-qnational-debt-crisisq-appear-in-the-washington-post#comment-20549 anyway you missed an opportunity to again rail against the report of the Simpson Bowles Commision with the strangely worded: "The commission proposed a series of spending cuts and tax increases so controversial that the panel itself failed to reach agreement on a plan" - pete Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:49:02 +0100