"WalMart: A Progressive Success Story", by Jason Furman, chief economic advisor to President Obama [View all]

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http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=36408

Furman wrote a 16-page 2005 paper entitled “Wal-mart: A progressive success story” when he was a visiting scholar at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. That’s something Michigan’s Mackinac Center liked LOVED. You may remember Mackinac from their support of Right-To-Work in Michigan, or their ALEC involvement, or their supporting role in readying and unleashing Wisconsin Act 10 upon our state. (If not, here’s their entry on SourceWatch).

Back in the day, Alternet printed a nice takedown of Furman by Lynn Stuart Parramore which includes this exremely off-putting quote from Furman on lefty “Kum-Bay-Ya”:

“The collateral damage from these efforts to get Wal-Mart to raise its wages and benefits is way too enormous and damaging to working people and the economy more broadly for me to sit by idly and sing ‘Kum-Ba-Ya’ in the interests of progressive harmony.”

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I can see why Furman got a conservative stamp of approvall before he was appointed Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) in June of this year.

Furman spoke last night at the UW-Madison, and was scheduled to take questions from the audience. Can't wait to learn what was asked, and what answers were given.

We simply cannot afford another corporatist in the White House.