Econ Populism

Webb, Tester sound good on Meet the Press - The Smirking Chimp: "Webb, Tester sound good on Meet the Press
by Margie Burns

Senators-elect Jon Tester of Montana and James Webb of Virginia were interviewed today by Tim Russert. Both sound sensible, speak clearly, and bring up the most important issues of our time. Jim Webb said plainly that the top issue for him is economic fairness.

Shorn of the superficialities that go with any television interview, the discussion on Meet the Press did actually foreground our huge and growing gap between top and bottom.

High time. Since the issue of economic fairness impinges on both foreign policy and domestic policy, it has to come up somewhere. Webb referred more than once to tax loopholes exploited by international corporations and to the Bush tax cuts enjoyed by the top-one-percent of the wealthy in the U.S. Tester said that more farms in Montana are empty than are being farmed..."