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Economic Masterminds Advise Candidates?

Posted by ROBIN KOERNER in Politics.
Feb 13th, 2008 | View Comments

Do the names Sperling, Goolsbee, and Holtz-Eakin mean anything to you?

If not, they should… one of these people will be instrumental in setting economic policy when Obama, Clinton or McCain get elected… and they are all determining a large part of what the candidates are saying now.

This piece from Frankfurter Allgemeine, translated from German at Watching America.com, discusses the fundamentals of the advise that each of these economists is giving their respective leaders…. definitely something we should know about.

H/T WATCHING AMERICA.com

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Slamfu

"McCain should promise that no one who ever worked in the Bush Administration will ever work in his administration. Anyone who worked in the Bush Administration and did not resign in disgust is unfit to be involved in politics or the government."

Amen brother.

Dave_Schuler

Something that was brought home forcefully to me after watching John Kenneth Galbraith hemming and hawing over the policies expressed by George McGovern, the candidate for whom he was chief economic adviser, was that the job of an economic adviser is not to give economic advice. It is to put lipstick on a pig.

superdestroyer

Reading that McCain is using a former Bush staffer as his economic adviser demonstrates that Senator McCain is unfit to be president.

McCain should promise that no one who ever worked in the Bush Administration will ever work in his administration. Anyone who worked in the Bush Administration and did not resign in disgust is unfit to be involved in politics or the government.

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