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Granny D again. I’m just two nights away from my CSPAN debate with Senator Judd Gregg, who seems to want to keep his Senate seat, and I’m very nervous. It is hard for a 94 year-old woman from the woods to think about going against a career politician lawyer, but I got myself into this mess. We get to ask each other four questions. I think I know what I will ask him (see http://GrannyD.org), but I can’t imagine what he will ask me. If he hired you to come up with a question or two, what would you come… Continue reading →

Granny D here. I love this blog world–you make a general statement and then some people write a book for you about it. Thank you all for your comments on protectionism. I am totally persuaded and will now stop pruning my garden, leaving behind my old fashioned notion that editing and flowering are necessary partners. What does continue to bother me, however, is the unsaid notion that labor is one of the several components of manufacturing, when, in fact, it is us. Economists (and their hunchbacked evil blogger assistants) tend to make such deadly abstractions that they lose sight of… Continue reading →

I know, why am I worried about protection at my age? I really don’t want to be labeled a protectionist, but I think there is a happy medium between raw free marketeering and highwall protectionism. My father worked as a laborer in a furniture warehouse in Laconia, NH. He was able to own a house and raise five kids pretty decently. You can’t do that anymore, and the reason is that the economy is no longer self-contained in the way that a good system or a good machine can be. Without some containment, it’s rather like trying to farm without… Continue reading →

I thank the many who have responded to my first blog! This is fun. I was taken to task by one of you for mentioning that Digital Equip. was the largest employer when Judd Gregg was first elected, compared to Wal-Mart, presently. I agree that Mr. Gregg did not personally upend Digital and invite Wal-Mart in by night. Each company has responsibility for its own success or failure. Yet they operate within an economic environment, and our leadership makes important differences in what kinds of businesses succeed and fail. Right now, there is no leadership to create an environment where… Continue reading →

I want to thank Lawrence for letting me participate here. Yes, I’m running for US Senate (http://GrannyD.com) at the age of 94 against a Bush Yes Man and debate coach, Sen. Judd Gregg. I will debate Gregg next week and am nervous about it, though I certainly have the facts on my side, while his major accomplishments are the Iraq War, the deficit, the fact that the largest employer in New Hampshire was Digital Equipment when he began his term (it is now Wal-Mart), and the fact that you could eat the fish in our streams when he began his… Continue reading →