All posts are posted at the time indicated unless otherwise
noted*, not always
clearly, as
updated or
inserted**.
* saved-in-draft maintain original time with date posted indicated
** sometimes indicated by links
Sometimes bracketed material is a preface, and
now to the matters that triggered this tangent.
It was a surprise to me and others that the Debt Panel released its(or rather
the co-chair's) plan, an interesting update to my comments in the
update regarding the chart and debt. It is probable that the chart, may not include social security, and regarding medicare, off the chart going forward. But given the shotgun approach, not really a good metaphor(as aim is not the point), but as a matter of breadth and coverage, it is all over the map and "
harpooned every whale"***. While the origin of the Debt Panel(link
hopefully to be inserted)is in question, (was it Obama's or a Republican idea) it does seem to fit
my theory of Obama. The solutions to our economy are very broad, and inter-related, and hinge on the balance of what government does, more particularly does it create jobs or the environment for the economy. The answer is usally, if not always, both to some degree. In this regard, any wholesale dismissal of the plan is in as much error as even calling it a plan. It seems a well crafted way to put everything on the table, not that it will all be called for or passed.
*** Simpson quote from Bloomberg link.
[Speaking of timing and updates and tangents, Fair Game is a movie noted in
C-word post, but
Decision Points(book) is the
center of the
Circumference.
Somewhere there is a link
that closes the
circle.]
[Speaking of Spokes:
Axel Rod?]
(hardball breaking: fight or switch)