Amusing Graph of the Day
Here. (You may not find what the graph indicates to be amusing. But the graph itself certainly is.)
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Yes it is funny, but I'm betting DeLong wouldn't like it if the Heritage Foundation did a chart showing the absolute federal budget deficit under Obama compared to Thomas Jefferson.
ReplyDeleteHe might not.
ReplyDeleteFunny yes... but ARRRGGGH it's from the Urban Institute. They know better than that!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's obviously meant to be a punch-line, but they are not in the business of punch-lines, so that's disappointing to see.
The Tax Policy Center is a joint Urban-Brookings project. I'm just going to pretend that graph came from the Brookings side of the house.