Sort of a ‘Rosetta Stone” to help explain what
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Posted On: 02/04/2016 2:12:38 PM
Sort of a ‘Rosetta Stone” to help explain what divides posters on this board and in the Country at large. LOL!
Bruce Bartlett: "The GOP" No need for economist. They need a psychiatrist and a socioligist.
Bill Moyers show this weekend was excellent as usual.
Bruce Bartlett was on along with David Stockman and Heather McGee.
http://billmoyers.com/
Who is Bruce Bartlett.
In this Moyers & Company segment, Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote “the bible” for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White House, and served as a top treasury official under the first President Bush. Now he’s a heretic in the conservative circles where he once was a star.
I made a post a few months ago about Bartlett destroying every Republican talking point when it comes to economic policy in 5 minutes. He should know. He's the founder of them.
In this interview he calls the GOP crazy again and also goes into detail why the GOP is just insane.
First he compares their ideology to religion.
BRUCE BARTLETT: Well, it's very much like religion. And I think that it's not a surprise that so many very, you know, devout Christians are a part of the Republican Party and accept a lot of this. Because the nature of deep religious belief is faith, which means you accept things for which there is no proof.
I think that was the 'money shot' right there!
And so, I think it's not that hard to shift that faith over to believe a lot other things that you've been told are true so many times that you just accept that on faith as well.
That if you cut taxes, revenues will go up, you know, and things of this sort. That all tax cuts are good and all spending cuts are good, and all government is bad.
Bartlett dropping the elbow from the top rope after the thingy.
Here is the question Moyers asked him about the GOP ability to completely ignore facts. Even when they are punching you in the face.
BILL MOYERS: I just read a summary of a study done at the University of Michigan that over a period of time shows that people have confronted with facts they believe to be true will reject them nonetheless if they offend or undermine their belief system. That their beliefs -- our beliefs are more important to us than the facts.
BRUCE BARTLETT: Oh, I think we need some -- instead of talking to economists like me, we need to be talking to psychologists and sociologists to try to get at the root of this problem.
1 2 3. Match over.
Bruce Bartlett: "The GOP" No need for economist. They need a psychiatrist and a socioligist.
Bill Moyers show this weekend was excellent as usual.
Bruce Bartlett was on along with David Stockman and Heather McGee.
http://billmoyers.com/
Who is Bruce Bartlett.
In this Moyers & Company segment, Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote “the bible” for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White House, and served as a top treasury official under the first President Bush. Now he’s a heretic in the conservative circles where he once was a star.
I made a post a few months ago about Bartlett destroying every Republican talking point when it comes to economic policy in 5 minutes. He should know. He's the founder of them.
In this interview he calls the GOP crazy again and also goes into detail why the GOP is just insane.
First he compares their ideology to religion.
BRUCE BARTLETT: Well, it's very much like religion. And I think that it's not a surprise that so many very, you know, devout Christians are a part of the Republican Party and accept a lot of this. Because the nature of deep religious belief is faith, which means you accept things for which there is no proof.
I think that was the 'money shot' right there!
And so, I think it's not that hard to shift that faith over to believe a lot other things that you've been told are true so many times that you just accept that on faith as well.
That if you cut taxes, revenues will go up, you know, and things of this sort. That all tax cuts are good and all spending cuts are good, and all government is bad.
Bartlett dropping the elbow from the top rope after the thingy.
Here is the question Moyers asked him about the GOP ability to completely ignore facts. Even when they are punching you in the face.
BILL MOYERS: I just read a summary of a study done at the University of Michigan that over a period of time shows that people have confronted with facts they believe to be true will reject them nonetheless if they offend or undermine their belief system. That their beliefs -- our beliefs are more important to us than the facts.
BRUCE BARTLETT: Oh, I think we need some -- instead of talking to economists like me, we need to be talking to psychologists and sociologists to try to get at the root of this problem.
1 2 3. Match over.
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