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there are 2 other details regarding the starve-the beast crowd
1. they believe the worst gov't worker is a competent person, someone actually qualified to perform the task/job - which i suppose explains the presence of bush and palin
2. deficits during the clinton era occurred while we were actually producing/investing in something - in that case, the information economy. The bush era produced n-o-t-h-i-n-g worth selling to the rest of the globalized economy.

Can Mr. Miller answer this question: When times are good, we think deficits don't matter and don't feel motivated to address them (or we cut taxes to return money to the public). When times are bad, we can't address deficits because we are in a hole (which we may be in partly due to the large borrowing from China etc.). So when and how will we develop the will to deal with this problem before it explodes in our face and we can no longer borrow to cover it?

Neo-con (i.e. a FALSE conservative-real usually implying a Pat Moynihan-Pat Buchanan-William F. Buckley-all dead or nearly so) is
simply a traitor. They guided the gutless Democrats with their stupid nonsense agandas for social change on the promise that THE NEO-CONS could run our fading economy. The clinton slogan "It's the economy, stupid" should have been "It's maintain manufacturing and good-paying middle class jobs that CAN'T be excessed to Mexico or worst of all China".
We need a Constitutional Convention to work it all out.

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Robert,

Left, right and Center is one of the very best podcasts out there. If you are going to diss it, give a reason bro.

PC:

Are you really calling Matt Miller a neo-con? This is what drives folks like me to leave the Democratic party and become independent. If Bill Clinton or even Al Gore ran today, they would be considered neo-cons and not real Democrats.

Just 8 years ago Lieberman was a Dem and just four years ago John Kerry asked McCain to run with him as VP. Now Lieberman is an outcast and McCain is discredited because there is an R before his name. So silly and so bad for America.

Matt Miller is middle of the road and when you listen to his podcast you will see that he usually argues issues, not partisan politics. But you want to drag him down because he doesn't conform to your far left liberal views.

America is destined to fail with partisan views like the one you expressed.

Why is WNYC continuously promoting the discredited neoconservatives and their agenda?

Haven't they done enough damage!

Left, Right and Center is hands down the best weekly news wrap up show going. Economics But listening to Matt, Tony Blankly and the other two co-hosts discuss (argue) about who is to blame for the current fiscal "crisis" is a bit confusing. Basically, each week Matt and Robert Scheer will place blame on the Republicans and Tony Blankly will blame the Democrats. Huffington never shows up. So the question is, does anyone really know where to lay blame?