Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Friday, December 17, 2010

Down The Road To Decline

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Congress Sends $801 Billion Tax Cut Bill to Obama and he signs it.  Well what does the man who sold us Supply Side Economics over 30 years ago think of it?  Not Much!











You will notice that while he blames the politicians he blames the FED and Wall Street even more.   The FED has engineered a serial bubble that has created the illusion of wealth by encouraging the Wall Street casino.  He says that the original Bush Tax Cuts were a 10 billion dollar mistake and extending them will make it worth.  And about that deficit - lets take another look at this chart from the above video:


NDGraph
You can see the results of the original Reagan tax cuts but most striking is what happened during the Bush II administration.  Irresponsible tax cuts along with two unpaid for wars of choice increased the deficit at an incredible pace.  Time is running out for the US.  We have two choices:



  1. Kill Medicare and slash the military budget or

  2. Raise Taxes


The medical and military industrial complex will not allow the first and the people won't allow the second.



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  1. geoffDecember 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM

    So have the tea baggers and birthers and other fringe characters got it right and Obama is a character from the Twilight Zone: he seemed a nice enough fellow but he was foreign, no alien, and only wanted to feed on the flesh of our young. it's starting to seem that the nuts are correct: Obama is an alien or just a confused Hawaiian guy trying to make sure he gets a seat at the table with the elite VSP and his Visa card works after his time passes.

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  2. Bill H.December 17, 2010 at 5:17 PM

    Actually, neither 1 or 2 will do it at this point. It will require a combination of both.

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