"Outhouse Economics"

Some of you have commented in the past how much you've enjoyed my mother's blog. She's 77, a life-long Democratic activist, and a really good writer. Her latest is about Virginia Foxx, the GOP's fixation on balancing the budget and what Mom calls "Outhouse Economics."  My mother is old enough to have lived in the kind of America that Foxx and the GOP are holding up as their shining example of how our government should function. It's called the Great Depression. I've called her to see if I can post the whole thing here. While I wait for her to call me back, pop over and give it a read. I really love her framing — "Outhouse Economics"

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This economic "theory" is old-timey American rural nonsense, as outdated and groundless as the GOP anti-scientific theories and its social prejudices.  And it's certainly no way to run a government.