Terrance Heath
Terrance Heath
| Hometown: | Chevy Chase, MD |
| Interests: | Health Care for All, Quality Education, The Big Con, Progressive Vision, black, father, gay, vegetarian |
| Honors: | 4 |
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- November 26, 2008 - 12:17amTwo phenomena define the "Drop Dead" conservatism that's arisen in response to the current financial crisis — a failure of vision that distorts the reality in front of us, and an anger that is not merely destructive, but self destructive. Contemplating the abyss, "Drop Dead" conservatives respond by flinging themselves —and the rest of the country — into it.
- November 24, 2008 - 11:20am
Drop Dead. That's the best answer that some conservatives have been able to offer to a country in teeth of the worst financial crisis we've faced in a generation. When the Wall Street crisis loomed and the bailout was being debated: let the market fail, and risk another Great Depression, "for the sake of the altar of the free market." Now, the economic downturn having worsened — and in ways that are more deeply felt in parts of the country far from centers of financial or political power — their response to rescuing the largest remnant of our manufacturing sector? "Drop Dead," and devil take the hindmost.
- November 21, 2008 - 12:18pm
I'm beginning to wonder if there's a single agency in the United States government that conservatives haven't left in worse shape than they found it.
- November 7, 2008 - 12:20pm
Sometimes the most pointed — or preposterous — comes from unexpected sources. This time, it's The Onion providing the former and the Wall Street Journal serving up the latter.
- November 5, 2008 - 1:19pmI have two sons — one nearly six years old, and the other 11 months old — and I want to leave them a country and and world in much better shape than it is now. I want a chance for them to live in a country where they have a chance to become whatever their talents and abilities place within their reach. Last night, that world came within their reach, and perhaps within ours too.
- November 3, 2008 - 11:28am
It looks like another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, as it looks like any questions that are going to be asked — and answered — before election day already have been.
- October 31, 2008 - 11:45amWe have reached a tipping point — a few steps before the precipice, with maybe a few feet of earth still under our feet — from which we can see the abyss, and still have a chance to change direction. We have reached a point of realization that government by the wealthy, for the wealthy, and of the rest of us doesn't work. And that means we've reached a point of possibly considering that perhaps "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" isn't "government taking care of us." It's us, taking care of our communities, our families and one another. (Read part one here.)
- October 29, 2008 - 2:01pmWhile the McCain/Palin campaign attempts to whip people into a lather with a liberal use of the "socialism" label, invoking fears of a wealth transfer, it's easy to forget that a huge wealth transfer has been underway for a while and is going on even now. We call it "the bailout."
- October 24, 2008 - 11:44am
It was 79 years ago today that, the 1929 Wall Street Crash marked the beginning of America's slide in to the Great Depression. As we find ourselves in the middle of an economic crisis — during which the Great Depression has been referenced by just about everyone — I decided to make the anniversary by talking with economist and author Robert Kuttner about how we got to the Crash of 1929 to Meltdown 2008, and how we can avoid a repeat of what followed the 1929 crash.
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- November 26, 2008 - 12:17amTwo phenomena define the "Drop Dead" conservatism that's arisen in response to the current financial crisis — a failure of vision that distorts the reality in front of us, and an anger that is not merely destructive, but self destructive. Contemplating the abyss, "Drop Dead" conservatives respond by flinging themselves —and the rest of the country — into it.
- November 24, 2008 - 11:20am
Drop Dead. That's the best answer that some conservatives have been able to offer to a country in teeth of the worst financial crisis we've faced in a generation. When the Wall Street crisis loomed and the bailout was being debated: let the market fail, and risk another Great Depression, "for the sake of the altar of the free market." Now, the economic downturn having worsened — and in ways that are more deeply felt in parts of the country far from centers of financial or political power — their response to rescuing the largest remnant of our manufacturing sector? "Drop Dead," and devil take the hindmost.
- November 21, 2008 - 12:18pm
I'm beginning to wonder if there's a single agency in the United States government that conservatives haven't left in worse shape than they found it.
- November 7, 2008 - 12:20pm
Sometimes the most pointed — or preposterous — comes from unexpected sources. This time, it's The Onion providing the former and the Wall Street Journal serving up the latter.
- November 5, 2008 - 1:19pmI have two sons — one nearly six years old, and the other 11 months old — and I want to leave them a country and and world in much better shape than it is now. I want a chance for them to live in a country where they have a chance to become whatever their talents and abilities place within their reach. Last night, that world came within their reach, and perhaps within ours too.
- November 3, 2008 - 11:28am
It looks like another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, as it looks like any questions that are going to be asked — and answered — before election day already have been.
- October 31, 2008 - 11:45amWe have reached a tipping point — a few steps before the precipice, with maybe a few feet of earth still under our feet — from which we can see the abyss, and still have a chance to change direction. We have reached a point of realization that government by the wealthy, for the wealthy, and of the rest of us doesn't work. And that means we've reached a point of possibly considering that perhaps "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" isn't "government taking care of us." It's us, taking care of our communities, our families and one another. (Read part one here.)
- October 29, 2008 - 2:01pmWhile the McCain/Palin campaign attempts to whip people into a lather with a liberal use of the "socialism" label, invoking fears of a wealth transfer, it's easy to forget that a huge wealth transfer has been underway for a while and is going on even now. We call it "the bailout."
- October 24, 2008 - 11:44am
It was 79 years ago today that, the 1929 Wall Street Crash marked the beginning of America's slide in to the Great Depression. As we find ourselves in the middle of an economic crisis — during which the Great Depression has been referenced by just about everyone — I decided to make the anniversary by talking with economist and author Robert Kuttner about how we got to the Crash of 1929 to Meltdown 2008, and how we can avoid a repeat of what followed the 1929 crash.
- October 23, 2008 - 10:59am
In my work-related news reading this morning, I came across an interesting take on Obama's exchange with "Joe the Plumber."
The truth is that Obama in Ohio spoke the language of American democracy, which has always included a perception that wealth is a form of power, and that stupendous inequalities of wealth produce an undemocratic inequality of power. His questioner, angry in anticipation that he could not hold onto all of the $300,000 he might hypothetically earn in a year, spoke the language of righteous self-interest; and he cited as his irrefutable authority "the American dream." If I follow that dream, said the Joe of today, hoarding the wealth of the Joe of tomorrow, why should I ever pay a higher tax?
Obama's answer was simple and Christian. Once you have been helped by a tax break to prosper and to grow relatively rich, it seems fair to give others lower down the ladder the same chance that once helped you.
You'd think so. But once again, depending on how you you believe faith and finance relate to one another.
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- Commented Fundamental Problem in a discussion on This Week In "Insurance Company Rules": Forced To Raise Funds For Sick Friends (Blog entry) | August 25, 2008 - 8:35am
- Commented Having Solutions Ready in a discussion on The Missed "Clinton Moment" and "Deval Moment" (Blog entry) | August 19, 2008 - 12:14pm
- Commented Prioritization & People in a discussion on How Do We Seize The Obama Moment? (Blog entry) | August 18, 2008 - 10:36am
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