The Dead Billionaires Club – The Dead Can’t Vote, but Should They Give? « Truth-2-Power

I've been wondering why there seems to have been a push to take America back to the turn of the previous century since the start of the W Administration. This article opened my eyes to forces that could explain the return of the robber baron mentality among corporate America. Time was that thinking this way would have had me question if I was being paranoid; after reading the intergenerational efforts of the moneyed elite, that internal reflex to think this is just paranoia is, unfortunately, wrong.

The Dead Billionaires Club – The Dead Can’t Vote, but Should They Give? « Truth-2-Power

Bottom Line - Political rancor stifling economic policy debate

I'm linking this story because it refers to a reluctance by economists to offer solutions to our economic problems due to the polarized political climate and what a Princeton University political historian called "the climate of distrust of expertise" -- another disturbing exhibit of evidence that we are paralyzed by loud practitioners of know-nothingness

Bottom Line - Political rancor stifling economic policy debate