aim4truth has the article Absolute Proof: Obama Rigged Elections. I certainly can’t vouch for anything in this article, but there was a YouTube video that I found interesting – Introducing the U.S. Digital Service. White House, Aug. 20, 2014.

I said at the time that the healthcare.gov fiasco was a management problem more than anything else. Reading, at the time, about how it was managed and comparing it to my own experience in the software engineering business, I never would have allowed this process to occur in any project that I managed. Mikey Dickerson, Administrator, U.S. Digital Service confirms my thinking by briefly mentioning how he came in to rescue the failure of healthcare.gov.

How Mikey Dickerson fits in with the main story of the original article is interesting to contemplate.

Forbes has the article Dear President Trump: Your Tax Plan Needs Bigger Deficits!

What I want to highlight here is this: the private sector needs government deficit spending if it is going to recover properly from both the heart attack of the Financial Crisis and the decades of disease brought on by income redistribution and rising debt levels. This is so because government deficits are private-sector surpluses.

I just have two nits to pick with this article. In talking about the possibility of inflation, the author stated,

yes, it can be inflationary. But a) we are a long way from that point right now and b) it’s only happened once in recent history: World War Two.

I am disappointed in the statement that the last time we had inflation was WW II. Why do Modern Money Theorists always pretend that the inflation of the 1970s never happened? I know it would just complicate matters to discuss the 1970s. However, leaving out the 1970s makes people who remember that time doubt the rest of the story you are trying to tell.

In fact, the inflation of the 1970s was a mini version of what happened in WW II. Lyndon Johnson wanted to fight a war in Vietnam at the same time that he wanted to stimulate the domestic economy. Add the oil shortage imposed on us by OPEC, and it is easy to see that the inflation of the 1970s is easily explained in MMT terms.

The second nit is just a typographical error. The hypothetical $400 trillion deficit mentioned at the end of the article should have said $400 billion.