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To: combjelly who wrote (700973)	2/25/2013 6:56:07 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574470

I have asked for one thing. A clear cut example of Keynes that worked. Because there are TONS of examples where it didn't. You and AL are hanging on like a couple of dead-enders. The rest of the world (well, except Krugman) is coming around to the idea that it is total bullshit, there are no examples where Keynesian economics has actually solved any problem, and here you are saying, "Well, it would have worked, except ..." >> The US was already an economic power going into the war.Heck, it was one even before the end of the 19th century. Not like it was after WWII and the rest of the real competition in the world had been blown up.

To: combjelly who wrote (700973)	2/26/2013 10:48:09 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574470

Horror! Obama Adminstration Warns Sequester Will Cut $2 Million From Non-Existent Agency In an effort to scare voters, the Obama Administration released a detailed report on the upcoming sequester cuts… including cuts to an agency that shut down in June 2012. Reason reported: If you want a thorough agency-by-agency rundown of the budget cuts sequestration would deliver, the Office of Management and Budget has you covered. In compliance with The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012, the OMB sent a detailed report to Congress in September 2012. But there’s a small problem with the report: One of the cuts it warns against would affect an agency that no longer exists–and didn’t exist when the OMB sent its report to congress. The first line item on page 121 of the OMB’s September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that’s slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012–three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress. More here. The U.S. Department of Justice shut down its National Drug Intelligence Center, which produced the annual National Drug Threat Assessments, before 2012.