( OT) It's The Economic Team, Stupid
 

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10085

extract

In the best known blunder, Greg Mankiw, the Chairman of the White
House Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters that outsourcing
American jobs to other countries is "a good thing" because "more things
are tradable than in the past." .....

Asked why Americans should help Iraq achieve universal health coverage
when we still don't have it here, Thompson explained: "Even if you don't
have health insurance, you are still taken care of in America. That
certainly would be defined as universal coverage."

( OT) It's The Economic Team, Stupid
 

Jim wrote:


http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10085

extract

In the best known blunder, Greg Mankiw, the Chairman of the White House
Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters that outsourcing American
jobs to other countries is "a good thing" because "more things are
tradable than in the past." .....

Asked why Americans should help Iraq achieve universal health coverage
when we still don't have it here, Thompson explained: "Even if you don't
have health insurance, you are still taken care of in America. That
certainly would be defined as universal coverage."

Ah, yes the official Republican bullship version...