Now that takes real courage -- he's telling tens of millions of Americans with serious medical problems to vote for him so that he can dismantle the health-insurance system and then to trust him to put something workable in its place.
Maybe he should rename his campaign bus the Crazy Talk Express.
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In an entertaining (slightly sarcastic) manner, Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, offers his take on a potpourri of economic trends and posturings by politicians. He also has a blog at the Prospect, Beat the Press, with commentary on press coverage of economic issues (http://www.prospect.org/cs/blogs/beat_the_press)
