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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.
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Category: Quotes
Posted on: September 7, 2007 9:53 AM, by Jake Young
I am not fighting for the Bush tax cuts; I'm fighting the notion that people who are in favor of tax cuts are all a bunch of liars or loonie tunes. Politicians in favor of tax cuts are all liars, as are all the politicians against tax cuts; in politics, lying is, sadly, the stable equilibrium. But most politicians are not loons; and most of their economics advisors are sober and intelligent fellows.
Now that's funny.
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Comments
After a 13 hour day at school, my brain isn't working very well, but did she say that politicians are not liars, except for the fact that they are? But she says they are not...
I know she's a wee bit shy of, well, maybe half a deck of cards, but.....
Posted by: Badger3k | September 8, 2007 12:46 AM