Politics Category
Misunderstanding Student Debt
Posted on August 21, 2022 Leave a Comment
This is a copy of an email sent to Politics War Room in response to the hosts discussion of student loan debt and proposals to cancel some or part of it. Politics War Room, “Revisionist History: The Triplicate Program and Opioid Epidemic”, July 10, 2022. Hello Al and James, I have to reply to your […]
James Carville is Correct
Posted on August 21, 2022 Leave a Comment
This is a copy of email sent to Politics War Room responding to James Carville’s argument that there is no serious defense for supply side, trickledown economics…at least not a defense for the trickle-down part, which has more or less been the point of promoting supply side arguments. Politics War Room, “David Maraniss: A Path […]
Neoliberalism Lies: James Carville is Right
Posted on August 9, 2022 Leave a Comment
This is an email sent to Al Hunt and James Carville at their Politics War Room podcast. Hello Al and James, When talking about trickle-down economics arguments, James Carville is 100% correct. All that tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy do is make corporations and the wealthy richer. It amazes me that anyone with […]
American Resentment
Posted on August 25, 2021 Leave a Comment
Americans embrace a remarkably oblique form of resentment, one expressed in a void of self-loathing. For all our ballyhooed belief in the equality of opportunity, freedom, and justice – what we called the American Dream – too many have abandoned it all to cynicism and have awakened on the wrong side of that dream. It […]
Do We Need to Understand the Q-Anon Phenomenon?
Posted on February 7, 2021 Leave a Comment
A quick note: This is from a comment I added to a friend’s Facebook post about an article in The New Republic called “The Democrat Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the Q-Anon Phenomenon” by Osita Nwanevu, published online on February 5, 2021. I don’t put a lot of stock in the college education metric […]
Student Loan Debt Crisis: Cancel Debt
Posted on January 31, 2021 Leave a Comment
Summary Comprehensive student loan relief corrects past policy errors. This is an economic issue. Education is a public good. Over the last 50 years, policy priorities reduced public funding for education. Reduced public funding put more cost burden on students. Public opinion and policy makers leaned on retrenchment to cut perceived “waste” and inefficiency in […]
W. Shane Schmidt 