Many of the serious neo-liberals were calling for Stimulus in 2008/2009, and the stimulus itself was far more in line with the size and structure of what they were calling for than what real world economists were calling for.

Its hard for me to credit that the jury is still out on evidence that was already out there for public consumption from his Illinois Senate and Democratic Presidential primary campaigns. It would, for instance, have been the easiest thing in the world for Obama to oppose the corporate trade agreements when running in Democratic primaries in 2008, and yet he was willing to take the heat for supporting them.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.