And my health care.

And my job.

Remember when privatizing Social Security sounded like an amazing plan and “all the cool kids were doing it?” Yea, me either. Thankfully, we won that one. Can you imagine if Social Security was wrapped up in the mortgage crisis right now?

At least Alexander conceded that Huckabee is an idiot. Let’s all hold hands now.

I don’t have an opinion on the Fair Tax, because I haven’t studied it. It’s easy to find a lot of economists who don’t like it, so that’s reason to be cautious. Huckabee throws it around like it’s a foregone conclusion that it’s a superior system.

I do not doubt your qualifications as an economist, but your statements can’t be considered as much more than opinion. Economics is not a science in the same way that physics and biology are. Systems cannot be isolated and tested. All you have are giant economies to tinker with. There are so many variables, and their effects so chaotic, that it is difficult to make firm conclusions, especially in the areas of prediction. It’s far easier to go back and determine the causes of the Great Depression (although there are a differing opinions there, too) than it is to predict what will happen if a given economic policy is implemented.

Many economists disagree with your assessment of Bush’s $1,000,000,000,000 tax cuts. It’s difficult to know for certain, as I just pointed out. But hindsight is clearer than foresight, and it appears that the primary beneficiaries of the tax cuts were Bush’s rich buddies. For example, CBS news reported in 2004 on a report by the Congressional Budget Office:

President Bush’s tax cuts since 2001 have shifted more of the tax burden from the nation’s rich to middle-class families, according to a study released Friday by the Congressional Budget Office.

As for tax cuts, those who say that they favor the rich tend not to have much economic training. In economics, everything is in the margin. Every single tax cut Bush has mad has affected each quintile equally. It only appears that the rich got the biggest break because they were already paying the highest marginal amount.

Huckabee is an idiot and there is good reason to be afraid of him, but he’s got his economics down pat.

I believe in America. I believe it exists. . .

Personally I tend to be more interested in things people can prove, rather than what they believe.

Oh and; ‘I believe in… General Petraeus’? Is there some doubt as to his existence?

You are a brave soul indeed for reading and analyzing that fundie crap for the rest of us atheists. And you do a such a good job! Thanks! Keep up the good work. I really enjoy this site.

Anyway, Huck’s support of both is like saying, “I promise to continue to keep our military fighting in Iraq. I also promise to completely redeploy the military to the moon.”

What a tool.

BTW, The “bad reporter” pic is absolutely priceless!!