Listening to Republican Debate XVII: When a dabbler in policy-think such as I am can spot the inaccuracy, the inconsistency, the enormous and questionable assumption in the statements of a candidate, you wonder why there is never a follow-up question that points it out.
Examples, from flipping on the tv for 3 minutes tonight:
Gingrich: Every American will be an investor when he goes to work (I missed the question, but he was obviously talking about privatizing Social Security), and will have an estate to leave his children, which he doesn't get now. Q: What causes this Everyman investor to make intelligent investment decisions? And what happens when, the year he retires or the year after, the market loses half its value, which has happened twice in the past 25 years?
Santorum: We'll cut the corporate income tax in half. It'll become like a Net Profits Tax (what does he think it is now?). But we'll only do it for manufacturers who keep their jobs in the U.S. They are the jobs that are leaving. Q: Has he never heard of call centers in India, or service bureaus in China or Taiwan?
What a waste of time; these guys are pathetic. Romney included. Huntsman, the only sensible guy in the field, dropped out today. I heard someone on the radio explain it this way: He's not charismatic, he's not exciting.
How about his policies?
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