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To: koan who wrote (83599)	9/28/2010 9:22:12 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

check your meds

To: koan who wrote (83599)	9/28/2010 12:43:31 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 89467

"Can't you see most dems are decent and most pubs are criminals or cretins or just misguided.." koan would you rather be tortured by a democrat or a republican/ That's how much sense your statement above shows. ==== U.S. Economy "Close to a Destructive Tipping Point," Glenn Hubbard Says Posted Sep 28, 2010 07:30am EDT by Aaron Task "America is very close to a destructive tipping point," co-authors Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro warn in their new book Seeds of Destruction. "We must change how we conduct our politics and economics...or we will inevitably go the way of all once-great nations and suffer an irreversible decline." Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, joined Dan Gross and I to discuss the "major structural imbalances" facing America, chief among them being the government's profligate spending. Hubbard, you may recall, was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during George W. Bush's first term. As you might expect, he is a strong advocate of smaller government and lower taxes. But Hubbard and Navarro, a business professor at UC Irvine, are also harshly critical of Bush's "gross mismanagement" of the fiscal stimulus bequeathed to his administration by President Clinton. Specifically, Hubbard chastises his former boss for the creation of a new unfunded federal mandate, Medicare Part D. But if Bush was a big spender, President Obama is "taking it to a whole other level," Hubbard says, citing the familiar critiques of ObamaCare and Financial Reform and "excess government spending" in general. In short, Hubbard believes Obama inherited a mess but has made it worse with nearly every one of his major policy initiatives and general governing philosophy. "We as a nation cannot resolve what have become deep and systemic structural imbalances in our economy simply by throwing more money and more and more regulations and more and more taxes at the problem," Hubbard and Navarro write. Stay tuned for additional segments from this interview where Hubbard discusses proposed solutions to many of our most intractable problems, including housing, the trade deficit with China and energy policy. finance.yahoo.com