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Ryan's Follies: Bureaucracy, Austerity, and Depression

By Joe Firestone
August 14, 2012

Here's the next group of Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU.

On bureaucracy and innovation:

”Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer choices has never worked – and it won’t work now.”

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Paul Ryan's Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part Two

By Joe Firestone
January 31, 2011

Here's Part Two of my textual analysis of the deficit reduction portion of Paul Ryan's Republican response to the SOTU.

Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new open-ended health care entitlement. more »

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Paul Ryan's Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part One

By Joe Firestone
January 30, 2011

Many of my recent posts have focused on fairy tales I thought the President would tell in the SOTU and also those that he did tell. more »

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More Fairy Tales of the SOTU

By Joe Firestone
January 28, 2011

In my last post, I scored the SOTU on the 7 Fairy Tales I discussed previously, and concluded that the President was subscribing to at most two of them, and that he accepted the deficit reduction framing of the Republicans as a basis for negotiat more »

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Fairy Tales of the SOTU Related to Deficit Reduction

By Joe Firestone
January 26, 2011

In "All Together Now: There Is No Deficit/Debt Problem,” I warned against the message calling for deficit reduction that the President would probably deliver in his State of the Union Address. more »

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