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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/04/the-presidents-speech.html/feed/ 0 Former US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill Calls George W. Bush a Liar on Bloomberg http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/12/oneill-says-bush-lies.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/12/oneill-says-bush-lies.html#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:06:27 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/12/oneill-says-bush-lies.html Paul O'Neill disputes claims by George W. Bush in his book that O'Neill never advised Bush against cutting taxes as he did twice early in his term after the Internet and Technology bubble crashed. O'Neill also says that the "day of reckoning" is coming for the US on budgetary issues. In essence, O’Neill said that he told George W. Bush not to cut taxes in 2001. Bush went ahead and cut taxes anyway – twice. And he added an unfunded Medicare prescription giveaway while overseeing two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now Bush is acting like O’Neill never said anything about the tax cuts. In Bush’s book "Decision Points", he claims never to have spoken to O’Neill about the matter. Videos attached

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I almost feel naïve for being so angry at President Obama’s betrayal of his campaign promises regarding taxes. I had never harbored much hope that he actually intended to enact the reforms that his supporters expected – not after he appointed the most right-wing of the Clintonomics gang, Larry Summers, then Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke and other Bush neoliberals.

But there is something so unfair and wrong that I could not prevent myself from waking up early Tuesday morning to think through the consequences of President Obama’s sellout in the years to come. Contrary to his pretense of saving the economy, his action will intensify debt deflation and financial depression, paving the way for a long-term tax shift off wealth onto labor.

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Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/12/obamas-bushism.html/feed/ 0 Whose Side is the White House On? http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/12/whose-side-is-the-white-house-on.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/12/whose-side-is-the-white-house-on.html#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:44:40 +0000 Guest Author http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=23181 In a speech given on November 20, 2010 at the ADA Education Fund’s Post-election Conference at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Professor James K. Galbraith asks for whom President Obama is really working

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/12/whose-side-is-the-white-house-on.html/feed/ 1 Presidential Reunion http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/03/presidential-reunion.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/03/presidential-reunion.html#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:25:22 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/03/presidential-reunion.html Pretty funny video by SNL characters bringing back a host of former Presidents to advise Obama to protect consumers from the banks. See the behind the scenes video and the Dana Carvey Dream Sequence too. Related Posts Presidential debates crucial in test of economic leadership 18 Sep 2008 John McCain as Dr. Frankenstein? 15 Oct

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/03/presidential-reunion.html/feed/ 0 Stimulus, recovery, patriotism and America’s shining city, Joe Biden style http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/02/stimulus-recovery-patriotism-and-americas-shining-city-joe-biden-style.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/02/stimulus-recovery-patriotism-and-americas-shining-city-joe-biden-style.html#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/02/stimulus-recovery-patriotism-and-americas-shining-city-joe-biden-style.html “We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” –John Winthrop Joe Biden is buying none of this America-as-an-empire-in-terminal-decline meme.  The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne caught up with the Vice President on Tuesday to discuss the Obama Administration’s economic recovery plan.  Where he got most heated was

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Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2010/02/stimulus-recovery-patriotism-and-americas-shining-city-joe-biden-style.html/feed/ 4 Obama: Now watch this drive http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/12/obama-now-watch-this-drive.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/12/obama-now-watch-this-drive.html#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:52:28 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/12/obama-now-watch-this-drive.html Back in September I posted “Now watch this drive” to explain voters’ increasing alarm at Obama’s detachment from the economic problems of ordinary Americans.  Commenting on a video featuring a famous George W. Bush gaffe, I said: As I see it, the man in video number one shows extreme callousness when switching abruptly from a

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Related Posts ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/12/obama-now-watch-this-drive.html/feed/ 0 Now watch this drive http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/09/now-watch-this-drive.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/09/now-watch-this-drive.html#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:03:23 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/09/now-watch-this-drive.html I have been arguing for some time that Barack Obama made a crucial tactical error in bailing out the big banks early in his presidency. His actions have left him vulnerable to populist resentment.  In my view, this weakens his credibility and ability to push through other pieces of his legislative agenda and will harm

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Related Posts No related posts. ]]> http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/09/now-watch-this-drive.html/feed/ 16 George Bush recounts his worst mistakes http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/01/george-bush-recounts-his-worst-mistakes.html http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2009/01/george-bush-recounts-his-worst-mistakes.html#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:15:10 +0000 Edward Harrison http://www.creditwritedowns.com/?p=4406 I think this video is an example of the most self-reflective you will see the current U.S. President George W. Bush become. In it, he talks about his mistakes, grappling in front of the camera with how historians may look back on his stint in the White House

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