Tornado Alley (PROG)

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LOL, HEH HA! .. shows how interested people are in the most important aspect of the health of Americans ..

If your friends told you they were staying in to watch Saturday Night Live this
weekend, chances are they weren't talking about that show on NBC. the highest online
viewership C-Span has seen since President Obama was inaugurated in January.

Of course, employment is most important too, and that leads me back to C-Span ..

This morning i listened to 45 minutes with an economist Bruce Bartlett .. lol, though understanding
little of economics i thought he made a lot of sense AND he quietly rubbished most of the Republican
and 'Libertarian' callers opinions on tax cuts, stimulus etc .. lol, in reading the link below, just
now, i was a bit flummoxed on the man, until WHEW! at the very bottom was this ..

In Bartlett's latest book, The New American Economy:The Failure of Reaganomics and a New
Way Forward, he goes back to the economic roots of Impostor and abandons the conservative
dogma in favor of a policy strongly based on what’s worked in the past. Bartlett explains
what went wrong with Reaganomics and what the Obama Administration is doing to fix it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bartlett

Soooooooooo, from one HUH!!! nerd, HA!, no way! .. i wish sometimes .. to
another, lol, guessing you watched it .. LOLOL .. thank you for the link .. AGAIN.

Sheeeezzz, how can a guy without cable and with a tv i can only watch one channel at a time on .. and
with the oldest microwave, from mini explosion scarred (it seems to have settled now) be seen as a nerd.

Bartlett, has gone through some evolution .. 1976, went to work for Ron Paul (R-Texas) .. much of his time working with the House Banking Committee, of which Paul was a member .. , which involved Bartlett in economic issues .. Paul .. defeated for reelection in November, 1976 .. elected in 1978-1984 .. [then] .. did not seek reelection after 1986, but has been elected and reelected since 1996.

January 1977, ....to work for Congressman Jack Kemp (R-New York) as staff economist .. much of his time on tax issues, helping to draft the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which ultimately formed the basis of Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cut .. book, "Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action" .. 1981 .. also co-edited the book The Supply-Side Solution .. 1983.

1978, Bartlett .. to work for Perry Duryea .. Republican candidate for governor of New York .. ovember 1978, Duryea was defeated and Bartlett returned to Washington, where he joined the staff of newly elected Senator Roger Jepsen (R-Iowa).

1981, Jepsen became Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and Bartlett became deputy director of the committee staff. In 1983, Jepsen became chairman and Bartlett became executive director of the JEC. During this period, the committee was very active in promoting Ronald Reagan's economic policies.

.. late 1984, Bartlett became vice president of Polyconomics, a New Jersey-based consulting company founded by Jude Wanniski, a former Wall Street Journal editorial writer, that advised Wall Street clients on economic and investment policy. Bartlett left in 1985 to become a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, where he specialized in tax policy and was especially involved in the debate around the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

1987, Bartlett became a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Policy Development, then headed by Gary Bauer.

1988, Bartlett left to become deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, where he served until the end of the administration of George H.W. Bush. He worked briefly at the Cato Institute in 1993.

Bartlett lives in Great Falls, Virginia.

In Bartlett's latest book, The New American Economy:The Failure of Reaganomics and a New
Way Forward, he goes back to the economic roots of Impostor and abandons the conservative
dogma in favor of a policy strongly based on what’s worked in the past. Bartlett explains
what went wrong with Reaganomics and what the Obama Administration is doing to fix it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bartlett

LOL .. a nice evolutionary process .. progressive .. :)