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No. Think it says mortality’s increased since 1999-even for men. But mainly for women. Men getting better since 2005 twitter.com/DLeonhardt/sta…
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Good for Krugman: More or less admits his liberal agenda not the answer to “White Despair” kausfiles.com/2015/11/09/kru…
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Huh, if true! twitter.com/colbycosh/stat…
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TRUE? Fox contributors (other than @GeorgeWill) “are barred from writing about Fox without permission”? Irena? nymag.com/daily/intellig…
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Why is it so key to avoid temp legalization before enforcement? Because once illegals are legalized enforcement won’t happen. Lesson of ’86
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Here’s Rubio on Hannity youtube.com/watch?v=PF7XTe… You think he rules out “temp legalization” trick that’s in “oomprehensive” plans? I don’t
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Rubio may be even better than Clinton at preserving ambiguity while seeming explicit. Don’t fall for it! twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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Rubio clearly still preserving ambiguity-ability 2 bring illegals ‘out of shadows’ with temporary insta-legalization twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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Rubio says only he wouldn’t “move forward on the other things”–which might mean only legis. to permanently resolve twitter.com/rpjonesga/stat…
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Rubio did NOT say wouldn’t take action on illlegals-ie temp legalization-until border secure youtube.com/watch?v=PF7XTe… twitter.com/rpjonesga/stat…
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Does Rubio pledge no legalization -even temp.-until enforcement’s working? Someone shld try to pin him down tonight twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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Does Rubio pledge no legalization–even temp.-until enforcement’s working? I don’t believe it. Happy 2B proven wrong twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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I didn’t hear Rubio say no legalization (temp/probationary) B4 enforcement works. Key pt. youtube.com/watch?v=PF7XTe… twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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Ryan already humiliating @RepMoBrooks? Clearly goes against pt. 1 of Ryan’s promise to HFC brooks.house.gov/uploads/Ryan%2… twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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Rubio: ‘I tried to make immig. bill as conservative as possible.’ But was always going to be “legalize 1st.” m.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/…
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It’s an @latimes/USC poll/”Poll: Majority of CA Blacks Believe Immigrants Making Financial Situation ‘Harder’”
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Actually, I’m told @RepGutierrez has lost a lot of cred w/ his audience. Told them all to sign up for this exec amnesty, then .. nothing
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According to Twitter Analytics, my “likes” have tanked since they switched from stars to hearts. Wonder if that’s true across Twitter.
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5th Circuit opinion goes further than lower court-holds Obama/DHS “lacked legal authority for their action” politico.com/story/2015/11/…
23 Krugman’s Modesty (not a joke!)
White Mischief: In a heartening spasm of modesty, Paul Krugman seems to admit that the standard liberal menu of policy goals — “universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education, and so on” — are not sufficient to address the large social problem revealed by the Deaton and Case study on rising death rates among American middle-aged whites, especially those with fewer skills. (“At this point you probably expect me to offer a solution,” Krugman writes, “But … “)
P.S. Assiduous tweeter Richard Yeselson nevertheless rises to defend the incrementalist liberal welfare state agenda, even in the context of the White Despair problem:
Let’s just get to the German level (forget Scandinavia), then we can sort out the other issues. This is the *easy* stuff.
Hmm. The deck chairs on the Titanic were the ‘easy stuff’! Krugman’s agenda items aren’t deck chairs, but they don’t look like lifeboats either.** I’d like to know what we’re going to do about the iceberg.
P.P.S.: “What is the ‘iceberg,’?” Yeselson asks. A: The iceberg is what Krugman (and Douthat) are writing about, namely workers losing what Deaton calls “the narrative of their lives” because the American economy and culture are not providing the means and meaning they’d expected, probably due to large “tectonic forces” (like technology) that are beyond easy political control. Simple economic growth — even growth with low unemployment rates, as now — doesn’t seem to be the answer for these people. A Krugman-style admission that we don’t know what the answer is seems like a heartening first step. ***
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** — ‘Hey, we now have the social safety net of a “mid-level OECD country.” Doesn’t that make you feel better about your life?’
*** — I especially don’t see how increased lower-skiled immigration, which inevitably depresses the wages of lower-skilled workers, will even partially cure this “White Despair” problem. I know immigration is sometimes offered up as a solution to the prospect of “secular stagnation.” I can see where it could stimulate overall growth (i.e., higher GDP). But I don’t see how more immgrants will help the struggling, unskilled middle aged folks whose low-skill labor market they flood, and who are now showing up dead. But maybe there is some magical property of immigration I’m missing. …
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At the crucial moment, @murphymike swivels and throws his $100M behind Pataki-Huntsman. It’s all going as planned. twitter.com/davidfrum/stat…
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In NH, Hillary Clinton boasts about voting for the border fence “numerous times.” #youdontneedaweatherman americarisingpac.org/in-nh-clinton-…
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Why are we sure it’s “lib media” trying to take down Carson & Rubio and not, you know, their GOP opponents’? twitter.com/marklevinshow/…
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MO’ RUBIO FUDGING & FINESSING-THIS TIME ON TRADE-“Marco Rubio Distances Himslf from TPP as ‘Pillar’ of His Presdncy” breitbart.com/big-government…
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You know all the ads abt the need 2 fight ID theft? Someone should tell IRS-w/ won’t tell U if your SS # being used nationalreview.com/corner/426717/…