Michael Kinsley's miserable opening line:In his Time
essay:
The Peter G. Peterson foundation, a new and welcome arrival on the national scold scene ...
They're not new. It's just the Concord Coalition in new clothes. They're not welcome. And they mislead (most significantly, by ignoring productivity gains when projecting ability-to-pay in the future).
Kinsley also presented dishonest figures, as Dean Baker
points out.
posted by Quiddity at 1/30/2009 01:14:00 PM
Don't forget that mega-scum Pete Peterson lobbied against preventing investment fund guys from unfairly claiming their income is "capital gains".